Genesis 38:17 · JPS 1917

And he said: 'I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock.' And she said: 'Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?'

Who acts: Judah, I, Tamar, thou · What happens: say, send, give · To what, where: kid, thee, flock, pledge, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 38:17 · 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, I, Tamar, thou), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 send	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 send	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 send	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 send	aux
8	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
9	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 send	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kid	det
11	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 send	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 goats	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 goats	det
14	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kid	nmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 flock	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 flock	det
17	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 send	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
20	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
25	Wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	27 give	aux
26	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 give	nsubj
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 give	iobj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pledge	det
30	pledge	pledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 send	punct
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 send	mark
33	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 send	nsubj
34	send	send	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 give	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 send	obj
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Judah				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	send	future	I	a kid of the goats	thee	the flock	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Tamar				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	future	thou	a pledge	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pledge=Theme
5	send	infinitive	thou	pledge			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אָנֹכִ֛י אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח גְּדִֽי־עִזִּ֖ים מִן־הַצֹּ֑אן וַתֹּ֕אמֶר אִם־תִּתֵּ֥ן עֵרָב֖וֹן עַ֥ד שָׁלְחֶֽךָ׃

Genesis 38:17: 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:1234 of Mova's parse database.

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