--- title: Genesis 47:25 (JPS 1917) — Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's… · tree and pragmatics description: Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.' Who acts: you, us, we. Genesis 47:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1568/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/47/) / [47:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.25/) / JPS 2 # Genesis 47:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.' **Who acts:** you, us, we · **What happens:** let, find, be, sight · **To what, where:** favour, sight, bondmen, lord This is Genesis 47:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (you, us, we), 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:1568 # text = Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.' 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 16 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 bondmen bondman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: offer - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=offer | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | infinitive | us | favour | | the sight of my lord | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | future | we | Pharaoh's bondmen | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sight** | | | my lord | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ הֶחֱיִתָ֑נוּ נִמְצָא־חֵן֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י אֲדֹנִ֔י וְהָיִ֥ינוּ עֲבָדִ֖ים לְפַרְעֹֽה׃ [Genesis 47:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.25/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And they said: 'Thou hast saved our lives.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1567/) 2. **Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1568` 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 47:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1567/) - next →: [Genesis 47:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1569/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 47:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.25/)