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title: Genesis 47:30 (JPS 1917) — But when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place.' And he said: 'I will do as thou hast said.' Who acts: I, thou, Egypt. Genesis 47:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 47:30 · JPS 1917

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But when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place.' And he said: 'I will do as thou hast said.'

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**Who acts:** I, thou, Egypt · **What happens:** sleep, carry, bury, say, do · **To what, where:** me, Egypt, burying place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 47:30 · JPS 1917 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 (I, thou, Egypt), 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:1573
# text = But when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place.' And he said: 'I will do as thou hast said.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	burying	burying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
37	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with my fathers | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | shall | thou | me |  | Egypt |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out egypt=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bury** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | me |  | father's burying place |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in place=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Egypt |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְשָֽׁכַבְתִּי֙ עִם־אֲבֹתַ֔י וּנְשָׂאתַ֙נִי֙ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם וּקְבַרְתַּ֖נִי בִּקְבֻרָתָ֑ם וַיֹּאמַ֕ר אָנֹכִ֖י אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥ה כִדְבָרֶֽךָ׃

[Genesis 47:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.30/)

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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:1573` 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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