Genesis 38:18 · JPS 1917

And he said: 'What pledge shall I give thee?' And she said: 'Thy signet and thy cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand.' And he gave them to her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

Who acts: Judah, I, Tamar, staff · What happens: say, give, be, come in, conceive · To what, where: pledge, thee, signet, hand, Tamar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 38:18 · 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, staff), 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	_	10 give	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
6	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	7 pledge	det
7	pledge	pledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
11	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 give	iobj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 signet	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 signet	punct
19	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 signet	nmod:poss
20	signet	signet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cord	cc
22	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 cord	nmod:poss
23	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 signet	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 staff	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 staff	cc
26	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 staff	nmod:poss
27	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 signet	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 hand	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 hand	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 hand	case
31	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 hand	nmod:poss
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 staff	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
35	And	and	CCONJ	_	37 gave	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gave	nsubj
37	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gave	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gave	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 came	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 came	cc
43	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 gave	conj
44	in	in	ADV	_	43 came	advmod
45	unto	unto	ADP	_	46 her	case
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 came	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 conceived	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 conceived	cc
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 conceived	nsubj
50	conceived	conceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 gave	conj
51	by	by	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 conceived	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, indirect=0, polarity=none, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Judah					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	shall	I	what pledge	thee			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient pledge=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Tamar	Thy signet and thy cord and thy staff				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent signet=Topic
4	is	present	thy staff			thy hand		tree rules
5	give	past	Judah	signet	Tamar			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to she=Recipient
6	come in	past	Judah not said here				unto Tamar	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	conceive	past	Tamar				by Judah	vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר מָ֣ה הָֽעֵרָבוֹן֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶתֶּן־לָּךְ֒ וַתֹּ֗אמֶר חֹתָֽמְךָ֙ וּפְתִילֶ֔ךָ וּמַטְּךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ וַיִּתֶּן־לָּ֛הּ וַיָּבֹ֥א אֵלֶ֖יהָ וַתַּ֥הַר לֽוֹ׃

Genesis 38:18: 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:1235 of Mova's parse database.

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