--- title: Genesis 48:11 (JPS 1917) — And Israel said unto Joseph: 'I had not thought to see thy face; and… · tree and pragmatics description: And Israel said unto Joseph: 'I had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also.' Who acts: Israel, I, God, me. Genesis 48:11 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.1587/) [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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/48/) / [48:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.11/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 48:11 · JPS 1917 And Israel said unto Joseph: 'I had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also.' **Who acts:** Israel, I, God, me · **What happens:** say, not think, see, let · **To what, where:** face, me, seed · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 48:11 · 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 (Israel, I, God, me), 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:1587 # text = And Israel said unto Joseph: 'I had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Israel Israel 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 _ 5 case _ _ 5 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 discourse _ _ 19 lo lo INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 also also ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Israel | | | | | unto Joseph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | thy face | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | | 4 | **let** | present | God | me | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **see** | infinitive | me *not said here* | thy seed | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seed=Stimulus | 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶל־יוֹסֵ֔ף רְאֹ֥ה פָנֶ֖יךָ לֹ֣א פִלָּ֑לְתִּי וְהִנֵּ֨ה הֶרְאָ֥ה אֹתִ֛י אֱלֹהִ֖ים גַּ֥ם אֶת־זַרְעֶֽךָ׃ [Genesis 48:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1587` 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 48:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1586/) - next →: [Genesis 48:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1588/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 48:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.11/)