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title: Genesis 48:5 (JPS 1917) — And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt b… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine. Who acts: I, two sons, Ephraim. Genesis 48:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 48:5 · JPS 1917

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And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine.

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**Who acts:** I, two sons, Ephraim · **What happens:** bear, come, be · **To what, where:** two sons, land, Egypt, mine

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This is Genesis 48:5 · 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, two sons, Ephraim), 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:1580
# text = And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	Simeon	Simeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
38	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
40	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	parataxis	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | thy two sons |  | the land of Egypt |  | unto thee | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | I |  |  | Egypt |  | unto thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into egypt=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | thy two sons | mine |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | shall | Ephraim and Manasseh | mine |  |  |  | as Reuben and Simeon | tree rules |

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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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וְעַתָּ֡ה שְׁנֵֽי־בָנֶיךָ֩ הַנּוֹלָדִ֨ים לְךָ֜ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֗יִם עַד־בֹּאִ֥י אֵלֶ֛יךָ מִצְרַ֖יְמָה לִי־הֵ֑ם אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ וּמְנַשֶּׁ֔ה כִּרְאוּבֵ֥ן וְשִׁמְע֖וֹן יִֽהְיוּ־לִֽי׃

[Genesis 48:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.5/)

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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:1580` 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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