--- title: Genesis 50:17 (JPS 1917) — And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of… · tree and pragmatics description: And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father.' And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him. Who acts: we, Joseph, transgression, servants. 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And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him. **Who acts:** we, Joseph, transgression, servants · **What happens:** pray, forgive, weep, speak, transgress · **To what, where:** thee, transgression · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 50:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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: who acts (we, Joseph, transgression, servants), 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:1653 # text = And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father.' And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 forgive forgive VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 transgression transgression NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 22 And and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 when when SCONJ WRB _ 27 mark _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 28 unto unto ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pray** | present | we | thee | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **forgive** | infinitive | we *not said here* | the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transgression=Theme | | 3 | **weep** | past | Joseph | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | transgression | | | | | unto Joseph | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **transgress** | | the servants of the God of thy father | | | | | | nom transgression «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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} כֹּֽה־תֹאמְר֣וּ לְיוֹסֵ֗ף אָ֣נָּ֡א שָׂ֣א נָ֠א פֶּ֣שַׁע אַחֶ֤יךָ וְחַטָּאתָם֙ כִּי־רָעָ֣ה גְמָל֔וּךָ וְעַתָּה֙ שָׂ֣א נָ֔א לְפֶ֥שַׁע עַבְדֵ֖י אֱלֹהֵ֣י אָבִ֑יךָ וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ יוֹסֵ֖ף בְּדַבְּרָ֥ם אֵלָֽיו׃ [Genesis 50:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.17/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [So shall ye say unto Joseph: Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1652/) 2. **And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father.' And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1653` 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 50:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1652/) - next →: [Genesis 50:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1654/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 50:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.17/)