Genesis 38:20 · JPS 1917

And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand; but he found her not.

Who acts: Judah · What happens: send, receive, not find · To what, where: kid, pledge, hand

This is Genesis 38:20 · 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 sent	cc
2	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 goats	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goats	det
8	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kid	nmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hand	det
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 friend	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friend	nmod:poss
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hand	nmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Adullamite	det
16	Adullamite	Adullamite	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 friend	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 receive	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 receive	mark
19	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pledge	det
21	pledge	pledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 receive	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	26 hand	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woman	det
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hand	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 woman	case
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 receive	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 found	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 found	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 found	nsubj
30	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 found	obj
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 found	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	Judah	the kid of the goats		by the hand of Judah's friend	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme
2	receive	to-infinitive	Judah not said here	the pledge	the woman's hand		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pledge=Theme from hand=Source
3	not find	past	Judah	kid			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח יְהוּדָ֜ה אֶת־גְּדִ֣י הָֽעִזִּ֗ים בְּיַד֙ רֵעֵ֣הוּ הָֽעֲדֻלָּמִ֔י לָקַ֥חַת הָעֵרָב֖וֹן מִיַּ֣ד הָאִשָּׁ֑ה וְלֹ֖א מְצָאָֽהּ׃

Genesis 38:20: 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:1237 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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