--- title: Genesis 47:22 (JPS 1917) — Only the land of the priests bought he not, for the priests had a po… · tree and pragmatics description: Only the land of the priests bought he not, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land. Who acts: land, priests, Pharaoh. 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The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, priests, Pharaoh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:GEN:1563 # text = Only the land of the priests bought he not, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land. 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 portion portion NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 portion portion NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 obj _ _ 26 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **buy** | past | land | the land of the priests | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | the priests | a portion | | Pharaoh | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Patient | | 3 | **eat** | past · do-support | the priests *not said here* | priests's portion | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Patient | | 4 | **give** | past | Pharaoh | priests's portion | priests *= priest* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient which=Theme | | 5 | **not** **sell** | past | priests *= priest* | priests's land | | | | wherefore *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} רַ֛ק אַדְמַ֥ת הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים לֹ֣א קָנָ֑ה כִּי֩ חֹ֨ק לַכֹּהֲנִ֜ים מֵאֵ֣ת פַּרְעֹ֗ה וְאָֽכְל֤וּ אֶת־חֻקָּם֙ אֲשֶׁ֨ר נָתַ֤ן לָהֶם֙ פַּרְעֹ֔ה עַל־כֵּ֕ן לֹ֥א מָכְר֖וּ אֶת־אַדְמָתָֽם׃ [Genesis 47:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.22/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1563` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Genesis 47:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1562/) - next →: [Genesis 47:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1564/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 47:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.22/)