Genesis 38:8 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: Judah · What happens: say, go in, perform, raise up · To what, where: duty, seed, brother · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Genesis 38:8 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 — and what happens in the verse to duty, seed, brother, 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.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוּדָה֙ לְאוֹנָ֔ן בֹּ֛א אֶל־אֵ֥שֶׁת אָחִ֖יךָ וְיַבֵּ֣ם אֹתָ֑הּ וְהָקֵ֥ם זֶ֖רַע לְאָחִֽיךָ׃

And Judah said unto Onan: 'Go in unto thy brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother.'

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 יֹּ֤אמֶר	cc	and
2	יֹּ֤אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he said
3	יְהוּדָה֙	יְהוּדָה	PROPN	_	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	nsubj	Judah
4	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	5 אוֹנָ֔ן	case	to
5	אוֹנָ֔ן	אוֹנָן	PROPN	_	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	obl	Onan
6	בֹּ֛א	בּוֹא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	ccomp	go
7	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	8 אֵ֥שֶׁת	case	into
8	אֵ֥שֶׁת	אִשָּׁה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	6 בֹּ֛א	obl	the wife
9	אָחִ֖י	אָח	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 אֵ֥שֶׁת	compound:smixut	your brother
10	ךָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 אָחִ֖י	nmod:poss	your
11	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 יַבֵּ֣ם	cc	and
12	יַבֵּ֣ם	יָבַם	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=2	6 בֹּ֛א	conj	act as a husband's brother for
13	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	14 ָ֑הּ	case
14	ָ֑הּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 יַבֵּ֣ם	obj	her
15	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	16 הָקֵ֥ם	cc	and
16	הָקֵ֥ם	קוּם	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=2	6 בֹּ֛א	conj	raise up
17	זֶ֖רַע	זֶרַע	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 הָקֵ֥ם	obj	offspring
18	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	19 אָחִֽי	case	for
19	אָחִֽי	אָח	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 הָקֵ֥ם	obl	brother
20	ךָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 אָחִֽי	nmod:poss	your
21	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	20 ךָ	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	who makes it happen (AA)
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal	יְהוּדָה Judah
בֹּא go	imperative · qal	אוֹנָן Onan
יַבֵּם act as a husband's brother for	imperative · piel	אוֹנָן Onan	ָהּ her
הָקֵם raise up	imperative · hiphil	זֶרַע offspring		אוֹנָן Onan

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

וַאֲמַר יְהוּדָה לְאוֹנָן עוּל לְוַת אִתַּת אָחוּךְ וְיַבֵּם יָתַהּ וַאֲקֵים זַרְעָא לְאָחוּךְ

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.

And Judah said unto Onan: 'Go in unto thy brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother.'

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:1127.

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