Genesis 38:21 · JPS 1917

Then he asked the men of her place, saying: 'Where is the harlot, that was at Enaim by the wayside?' And they said: 'There hath been no harlot here.'

Who acts: Judah, harlot, men · What happens: ask, say, be · To what, where: men, harlot, Enaim · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 38:21 · 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, harlot, men), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 asked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 asked	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 place	nmod:poss
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 men	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 asked	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 harlot	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 harlot	punct
13	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	16 harlot	advmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 harlot	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 harlot	det
16	harlot	harlot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saying	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 harlot	punct
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 Enaim	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 Enaim	cop
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 Enaim	case
21	Enaim	Enaim	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 harlot	acl:relcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 wayside	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wayside	det
24	wayside	wayside	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Enaim	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 harlot	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 harlot	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 been	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	34 been	punct
32	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 been	expl
33	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 been	aux
34	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 said	ccomp
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 harlot	det
36	harlot	harlot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 been	nsubj
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 been	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 been	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	34 been	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=ask, form=wh

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Judah		the men of kid's place		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Judah not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		the harlot					tree rules
4	is	past	the harlot			Enaim		by the wayside	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	men = man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	be	present · perfect	no harlot			here; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

וַיִּשְׁאַ֞ל אֶת־אַנְשֵׁ֤י מְקֹמָהּ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אַיֵּ֧ה הַקְּדֵשָׁ֛ה הִ֥וא בָעֵינַ֖יִם עַל־הַדָּ֑רֶךְ וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ לֹא־הָיְתָ֥ה בָזֶ֖ה קְדֵשָֽׁה׃

Genesis 38:21: 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:1238 of Mova's parse database.

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