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title: Genesis 48:18 (JPS 1917) — And Joseph said unto his father: 'Not so, my father, for this is the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joseph said unto his father: 'Not so, my father, for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.' Who acts: Joseph, this. Genesis 48:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 48:18 · JPS 1917

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And Joseph said unto his father: 'Not so, my father, for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.'

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**Who acts:** Joseph, this · **What happens:** say, be, put · **To what, where:** first born, right hand, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 48:18 · 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 (Joseph, this), 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:1594
# text = And Joseph said unto his father: 'Not so, my father, for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joseph	Joseph	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	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	ccomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	born	first-born	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=disagree

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph |  |  |  |  | unto Joseph's father; my father *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this | the first born |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive |  | thy right hand |  | Joseph's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon head=Destination |

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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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וַיֹּ֧אמֶר יוֹסֵ֛ף אֶל־אָבִ֖יו לֹא־כֵ֣ן אָבִ֑י כִּי־זֶ֣ה הַבְּכֹ֔ר שִׂ֥ים יְמִינְךָ֖ עַל־רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

[Genesis 48:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.18/)

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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:1594` 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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