Genesis 38:9 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: Onan, seed, Judah · What happens: know, not be, come, pass, go in, spill · To what, where: Judah, seed, ground, brother · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Genesis 38:9 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 — Onan, seed, Judah — and what happens in the verse to Judah, seed, ground, 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.

וַיֵּ֣דַע אוֹנָ֔ן כִּ֛י לֹּ֥אל֖וֹ יִהְיֶ֣ה הַזָּ֑רַע וְהָיָ֞ה אִם־בָּ֨א אֶל־אֵ֤שֶׁת אָחִיו֙ וְשִׁחֵ֣ת אַ֔רְצָה לְבִלְתִּ֥י נְתָן־זֶ֖רַע לְאָחִֽיו׃

And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his 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 יֵּ֣דַע	cc	and
2	יֵּ֣דַע	יָדַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he knew
3	אוֹנָ֔ן	אוֹנָן	PROPN	_	2 יֵּ֣דַע	nsubj	Onan
4	כִּ֛י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	7 ֖וֹ	mark	(dm) that
5	לֹּ֥א	לֹא	ADV	_	7 ֖וֹ	advmod	not
6	ל	לְ	ADP	_	7 ֖וֹ	case	to
7	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 יֵּ֣דַע	ccomp	him
8	יִהְיֶ֣ה	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	7 ֖וֹ	cop	it will belong
9	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	10 זָּ֑רַע	det	the
10	זָּ֑רַע	זֶרַע	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 ֖וֹ	nsubj	offspring
11	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 הָיָ֞ה	cc	and
12	הָיָ֞ה	הָיָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יֵּ֣דַע	conj	it was
13	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	14 בָּ֨א	mark	if
14	בָּ֨א	בּוֹא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	20 שִׁחֵ֣ת	advcl	he went
15	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	16 אֵ֤שֶׁת	case	into
16	אֵ֤שֶׁת	אִשָּׁה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	14 בָּ֨א	obl	the wife
17	אָחִי	אָח	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 אֵ֤שֶׁת	compound:smixut	his brother
18	ו֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 אָחִי	nmod:poss	his
19	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	20 שִׁחֵ֣ת	cc	and
20	שִׁחֵ֣ת	שָׁחַת	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יֵּ֣דַע	parataxis	he spoiled
21	אַ֔רְצ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 שִׁחֵ֣ת	obl	ground
22	ָה	ה	X	_	21 אַ֔רְצ	nmod	to [the]
23	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	25 נְתָן־	case	to
24	בִלְתִּ֥י	בֵּלֶת	ADP	_	25 נְתָן־	advmod	not
25	נְתָן־	נָתַן	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	20 שִׁחֵ֣ת	advcl	to give
26	זֶ֖רַע	זֶרַע	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	25 נְתָן־	obj	offspring
27	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	28 אָחִֽי	case	to
28	אָחִֽי	אָח	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	25 נְתָן־	obl	brother
29	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 אָחִֽי	nmod:poss	his
30	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	29 ו	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יֵּדַע he knew	wayyiqtol · qal	אוֹנָן Onan	יִהְיֶה it will belong
יִהְיֶה it will belong	yiqtol · qal	זָּרַע offspring
בָּא he went	qatal · qal	אוֹנָן Onan
שִׁחֵת he spoiled	qatal · piel	אוֹנָן Onan
נְתָן־ to give	infinitive construct · qal	אוֹנָן Onan	זֶרַע offspring

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

וִידַע אוֹנָן אֲרֵי לָא עַל שְׁמֵהּ מִתְקְרֵי זַרְעָא וַהֲוָה כַּד עָלֵיל לְוַת אִתַּת אֲחוּהִי וּמְחַבֵּל אָרְחֵהּ עַל אַרְעָא בְּדִיל דְּלָא לְקַיָּמָא זַרְעָא לַאֲחוּהִי

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 Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his 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:1128.

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