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title: Genesis 50:20 (JPS 1917) — And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. Who acts: ye, God, evil. Genesis 50:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 50:20 · JPS 1917

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And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

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**Who acts:** ye, God, evil · **What happens:** mean, bring, pass, be, save · **To what, where:** evil, day, much people

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This is Genesis 50:20 · 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 (ye, God, evil), 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:1656
# text = And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
32	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | ye | evil |  |  |  | as you; against me | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent evil=Topic as you=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | past | God | evil |  |  |  | for good | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme for good=Attribute |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | evil | this day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **save** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | much people |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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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וְאַתֶּ֕ם חֲשַׁבְתֶּ֥ם עָלַ֖י רָעָ֑ה אֱלֹהִים֙ חֲשָׁבָ֣הּ לְטֹבָ֔ה לְמַ֗עַן עֲשֹׂ֛ה כַּיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה לְהַחֲיֹ֥ת עַם־רָֽב׃

[Genesis 50:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.20/)

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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:1656` 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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