Genesis 38:21 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: Judah, harlot, men · What happens: ask, say, be · To what, where: men, harlot, Enaim · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Genesis 38:21 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Judah, harlot, men — and what happens in the verse to men, harlot, Enaim, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַיִּשְׁאַ֞ל אֶת־אַנְשֵׁ֤י מְקֹמָהּ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אַיֵּ֧ה הַקְּדֵשָׁ֛ה הִ֥וא בָעֵינַ֖יִם עַל־הַדָּ֑רֶךְ וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ לֹא־הָיְתָ֥ה בָזֶ֖ה קְדֵשָֽׁה׃

Then he asked the men of her place, saying: 'Where is the harlot, that was at Enaim by the wayside?' And they said: 'There hath been no harlot here.'

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יִּשְׁאַ֞ל	cc	and
2	יִּשְׁאַ֞ל	שָׁאַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he asked
3	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	4 אַנְשֵׁ֤י	case	(et)
4	אַנְשֵׁ֤י	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 יִּשְׁאַ֞ל	obj	the men
5	מְקֹמ	מָקוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 אַנְשֵׁ֤י	compound:smixut	her place
6	ָהּ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 מְקֹמ	nmod:poss	her
7	לֵ	לְ	ADP	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 אַיֵּ֧ה	mark	(cmp)
8	אמֹ֔ר	אָמַר	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	7 לֵ	fixed
9	אַיֵּ֧ה	אַיֵּה	PART	_	2 יִּשְׁאַ֞ל	ccomp	where?
10	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 קְּדֵשָׁ֛ה	det	[is] the
11	קְּדֵשָׁ֛ה	קָדֵשׁ	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	9 אַיֵּ֧ה	nsubj	cult prostitute
12	הִ֥וא	הִיא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 עֵינַ֖יִם	nsubj	she
13	בָ	בְּ	ADP	_	15 עֵינַ֖יִם	case	[was] at
14	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	15 עֵינַ֖יִם	det	(the)
15	עֵינַ֖יִם	עֵינַיִם	PROPN	_	11 קְּדֵשָׁ֛ה	acl	Enaim
16	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	18 דָּ֑רֶךְ	case	at
17	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	18 דָּ֑רֶךְ	det	the
18	דָּ֑רֶךְ	דֶּרֶךְ	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 עֵינַ֖יִם	obl	road
19	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	20 יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ	cc	and
20	יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יִּשְׁאַ֞ל	conj	they said
21	לֹא־	לֹא	ADV	_	24 זֶ֖ה	advmod	not
22	הָיְתָ֥ה	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	24 זֶ֖ה	cop	she was
23	בָ	בְּ	ADP	_	24 זֶ֖ה	case	in
24	זֶ֖ה	זֶה	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ	ccomp	this [place]
25	קְדֵשָֽׁה	קָדֵשׁ	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	24 זֶ֖ה	nsubj	a cult prostitute
26	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	25 קְדֵשָֽׁה	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: yes
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יִּשְׁאַל he asked	wayyiqtol · qal		אַנְשֵׁי the men
אמֹר	infinitive construct · qal
יֹּאמְרוּ they said	wayyiqtol · qal	אַנְשֵׁי the men
הָיְתָה she was	qatal · qal	קְדֵשָֽׁה a cult prostitute

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

Targum Onkelos

וּשְׁאִיל יָת אֲנָשֵׁי אַתְרַהּ לְמֵימַר אָן מְקַדִּשְׁתָּא הִיא בְעַיְנִין עַל אָרְחָא וַאֲמָרוּ לֵית הָכָא מְקַדִּשְׁתָּא

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

Then he asked the men of her place, saying: 'Where is the harlot, that was at Enaim by the wayside?' And they said: 'There hath been no harlot here.'

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:GEN:1140.

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