Genesis 38:6 · JPS 1917
And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.
Who acts: Judah, name, Shua · What happens: take, be, name · To what, where: wife, Tamar
This is Genesis 38:6 · 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 (Judah, name, Shua), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | Judah | Judah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wife | det |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Er | case |
| 7 | Er | Er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 born | nmod:poss |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 born | advmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 born | punct |
| 11 | born | born | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Er | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tamar | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Tamar | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Tamar | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Tamar | cop |
| 17 | Tamar | Tamar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Judah | a wife | for Er | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wife=Theme for er=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Shua's name | Tamar | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | Shua | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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
וַיִּקַּ֧ח יְהוּדָ֛ה אִשָּׁ֖ה לְעֵ֣ר בְּכוֹר֑וֹ וּשְׁמָ֖הּ תָּמָֽר׃
Genesis 38:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1222 of Mova's parse database.
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