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title: Genesis 48:14 (JPS 1917) — And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. Who acts: Israel, head, Manasseh. Genesis 48:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Genesis 48:14 · JPS 1917

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And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born.

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**Who acts:** Israel, head, Manasseh · **What happens:** stretch out, lay, be, guide · **To what, where:** right hand, hand, head, hands

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This is Genesis 48:14 · 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, head, Manasseh), 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:1590
# text = And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	guiding	guide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	wittingly	wittingly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
37	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	42	amod	_	_
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	_
42	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **stretch out** | past | Israel | Israel's right hand |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | past | Israel *not said here* | hand |  | Ephraim's head |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon head=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | Ephraim's head |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **guide** | gerund | Israel *not said here* | Israel's hands |  |  |  | wittingly *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | Manasseh |  |  |  |  | bear *property* | 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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וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל אֶת־יְמִינ֜וֹ וַיָּ֨שֶׁת עַל־רֹ֤אשׁ אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ וְה֣וּא הַצָּעִ֔יר וְאֶת־שְׂמֹאל֖וֹ עַל־רֹ֣אשׁ מְנַשֶּׁ֑ה שִׂכֵּל֙ אֶת־יָדָ֔יו כִּ֥י מְנַשֶּׁ֖ה הַבְּכֽוֹר׃

[Genesis 48:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.14/)

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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:1590` of Mova's parse database.

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