--- title: Genesis 48:15 (JPS 1917) — And he blessed Joseph, and said: 'The God before whom my fathers Abr… · tree and pragmatics description: And he blessed Joseph, and said: 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath been my shepherd all my life long unto this day, Who acts: Israel, fathers, God. 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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, fathers, God), 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:1591 # text = And he blessed Joseph, and said: 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath been my shepherd all my life long unto this day, 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 blessed bless VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ _ 12 before before ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 obl _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 16 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 25 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 cop _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 acl:relcl _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 33 unto unto ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | past | Israel | Joseph | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joseph=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Israel *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **walk** | past · do-support | my fathers | | | | before the God | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before whom=Trajectory | | 4 | **is a** | present · perfect | the God | my shepherd | | | day | my life *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | 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} וַיְבָ֥רֶךְ אֶת־יוֹסֵ֖ף וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הָֽאֱלֹהִ֡ים אֲשֶׁר֩ הִתְהַלְּכ֨וּ אֲבֹתַ֤י לְפָנָיו֙ אַבְרָהָ֣ם וְיִצְחָ֔ק הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ הָרֹעֶ֣ה אֹתִ֔י מֵעוֹדִ֖י עַד־הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃ [Genesis 48:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1591` 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 48:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1590/) - next →: [Genesis 48:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1592/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 48:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.15/)