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title: Genesis 48:2 (JPS 1917) — And one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee.' And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. Who acts: one, son, Israel. Genesis 48:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 48:2 · JPS 1917

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And one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee.' And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

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**Who acts:** one, son, Israel · **What happens:** tell, say, come, strengthen, sit · **To what, where:** Jacob, Joseph, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 48:2 · 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 (one, son, Israel), 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:1577
# text = And one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee.' And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
10	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | one |  | Jacob |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jacob=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | present | thy son |  |  |  |  | unto thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **strengthen** | past | Israel | Joseph |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 5 | **sit** | past | Israel *not said here* |  |  | the bed |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bed=Location |

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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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וַיַּגֵּ֣ד לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּ֛ה בִּנְךָ֥ יוֹסֵ֖ף בָּ֣א אֵלֶ֑יךָ וַיִּתְחַזֵּק֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב עַל־הַמִּטָּֽה׃

[Genesis 48:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.2/)

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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:1577` 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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