--- title: Genesis 48:20 (JPS 1917) — And he blessed them that day, saying: 'By thee shall Israel bless, s… · tree and pragmatics description: And he blessed them that day, saying: 'By thee shall Israel bless, saying: God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh.' And he set Ephraim before Manasseh. Who acts: father, Israel, God. 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And he set Ephraim before Manasseh. **Who acts:** father, Israel, God · **What happens:** bless, say, make, set · **To what, where:** peoples, thee, Ephraim · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 48:20 · 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 (father, Israel, 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:1596 # text = And he blessed them that day, saying: 'By thee shall Israel bless, saying: God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh.' And he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 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 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 11 By by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 obl _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 make make VERB VB Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 21 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 obj _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Ephraim Ephraim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Manasseh Manasseh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 29 And and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 Ephraim Ephraim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 before before ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Manasseh Manasseh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | past | father | peoples *= people* | | | day | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | father *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **bless** | shall | Israel | | | | | by thee | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Israel *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **make** | infinitive | God | thee | | | | as Ephraim and Manasseh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Product | | 6 | **set** | past | father | Ephraim | | | before Manasseh | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ephraim=Theme before manasseh=Destination | 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} וַיְבָ֨רֲכֵ֜ם בַּיּ֣וֹם הַהוּא֮ לֵאמוֹר֒ בְּךָ֗ יְבָרֵ֤ךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יְשִֽׂמְךָ֣ אֱלֹהִ֔ים כְּאֶפְרַ֖יִם וְכִמְנַשֶּׁ֑ה וַיָּ֥שֶׂם אֶת־אֶפְרַ֖יִם לִפְנֵ֥י מְנַשֶּֽׁה׃ [Genesis 48:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1596` 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 48:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1595/) - next →: [Genesis 48:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1597/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 48:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.20/)