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title: Genesis 47:23 (JPS 1917) — Then Joseph said unto the people: 'Behold, I have bought you this da… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Joseph said unto the people: 'Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh. Who acts: Joseph, I. Genesis 47:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 47:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Then Joseph said unto the people: 'Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh.

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**Who acts:** Joseph, I · **What happens:** say, buy · **To what, where:** land, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 47:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. 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 (Joseph, I), 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:1564
# text = Then Joseph said unto the people: 'Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
9	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph |  |  |  | then | unto the people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **buy** | present · perfect | I | your land | you |  | day | for Pharaoh | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary land=Theme |

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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}

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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יוֹסֵף֙ אֶל־הָעָ֔ם הֵן֩ קָנִ֨יתִי אֶתְכֶ֥ם הַיּ֛וֹם וְאֶת־אַדְמַתְכֶ֖ם לְפַרְעֹ֑ה הֵֽא־לָכֶ֣ם זֶ֔רַע וּזְרַעְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־הָאֲדָמָֽה׃

[Genesis 47:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.23/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Then Joseph said unto the people: 'Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh.**
2. [Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1565/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1564` 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.

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