---
title: Genesis 49:20 (JPS 1917) — As for Asher, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal daint… · tree and pragmatics
description: As for Asher, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. Who acts: bread, Asher. Genesis 49:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1619/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/49/) / [49:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.20/) / JPS 1

# Genesis 49:20 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
As for Asher, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** bread, Asher · **What happens:** be, yield · **To what, where:** royal dainties

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Genesis 49:20 · 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 (bread, Asher), 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:1619
# text = As for Asher, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Asher	Asher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dainties	dainty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall | Asher's bread |  |  |  |  | as Asher; fat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **yield** | shall | Asher | royal dainties |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent dainty=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
מֵאָשֵׁ֖ר שְׁמֵנָ֣ה לַחְמ֑וֹ וְה֥וּא יִתֵּ֖ן מַֽעֲדַנֵּי־מֶֽלֶךְ׃ס

[Genesis 49:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.20/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1619` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Genesis 49:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1618/)
- next →: [Genesis 49:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1620/)
- ↑ back to [Genesis 49:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.20/)