Genesis 38:8 · JPS 1917

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.'

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

This is Genesis 38:8 · 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), 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 said	cc
2	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 Onan	case
5	Onan	Onan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct
8	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 Go	advmod
10	unto	unto	ADP	_	14 wife	case
11	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 brother	nmod:poss
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 brother	case
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 perform	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 perform	cc
17	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 Go	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 duty	det
19	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 perform	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 brother	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 husband	det
22	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brother	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 husband	case
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 duty	nmod
25	unto	unto	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 perform	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 raise	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 raise	cc
29	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 perform	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 raise	compound:prt
31	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 raise	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 brother	case
33	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 brother	nmod:poss
34	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 raise	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Judah			unto Onan	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in	infinitive				unto thy brother's wife	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	perform	infinitive		the duty of a husband's brother		unto wife	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme
4	raise up	infinitive		seed	thy brother		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Theme to brother=Destination

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

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

Genesis 38:8: 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:1224 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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