Genesis 38:13 · JPS 1917

And it was told Tamar, saying: 'Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.'

Who acts: father · What happens: tell, say, go up, shear · To what, where: process, Tamar, Timnah, sheep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 38:13 · 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 (father), 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	_	4 told	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	Tamar	Tamar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 goeth	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 goeth	punct
10	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	18 goeth	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Behold	punct
12	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 goeth	nsubj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 law	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 law	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 in	punct
17	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	nmod
18	goeth	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	ccomp
19	up	up	ADV	_	18 goeth	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Timnah	case
21	Timnah	Timnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 goeth	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 shear	mark
23	shear	shear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 goeth	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sheep	nmod:poss
25	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shear	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 goeth	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 goeth	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate, form=decl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		process	Tamar	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient tamar=Topic
2	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go up	present	thy father in law		Timnah	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	shear	to-infinitive	thy father in law not said here	Timnah's sheep		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sheep=Initial_Location

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

וַיֻּגַּ֥ד לְתָמָ֖ר לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֵּ֥ה חָמִ֛יךְ עֹלֶ֥ה תִמְנָ֖תָה לָגֹ֥ז צֹאנֽוֹ׃

Genesis 38:13: 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:1229 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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