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title: Genesis 50:3 (JPS 1917) — And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days… · tree and pragmatics
description: And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming. Genesis 50:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 50:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming.

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**What happens:** fulfill · **To what, where:** forty days, days

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This is Genesis 50:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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: 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:1636
# text = And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	fulfilled	fulfill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	fulfilled	fulfill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	embalming	embalm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **fulfill** | past · passive |  | forty days |  |  |  | for Joseph | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fulfill** | present · passive |  | the days of embalming |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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וַיִּמְלְאוּ־לוֹ֙ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים י֔וֹם כִּ֛י כֵּ֥ן יִמְלְא֖וּ יְמֵ֣י הַחֲנֻטִ֑ים וַיִּבְכּ֥וּ אֹת֛וֹ מִצְרַ֖יִם שִׁבְעִ֥ים יֽוֹם׃

[Genesis 50:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming.**
2. [And the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1637/)

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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:1636` 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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