Genesis 38:7 · JPS 1917
And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
Who acts: Er, LORD · What happens: be, slay, sight · To what, where: sight, Judah, LORD
This is Genesis 38:7 · 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 (Er, LORD), 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 | _ | 11 wicked | cc |
| 2 | Er | er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wicked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Er | punct |
| 4 | Judah | Judah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 born | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Judah | case |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumType=Ord | 8 born | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 first | punct |
| 8 | born | born | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Er | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Er | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wicked | cop |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wicked | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 LORD | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 LORD | det |
| 17 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sight | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 slew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 slew | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 LORD | det |
| 21 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 slew | nsubj |
| 22 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wicked | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slew | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wicked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Er | the sight of the LORD | wicked property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | slay | past | the LORD | Judah | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sight | the LORD | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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
וַיְהִ֗י עֵ֚ר בְּכ֣וֹר יְהוּדָ֔ה רַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיְמִתֵ֖הוּ יְהוָֽה׃
Genesis 38:7: 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:1223 of Mova's parse database.
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