Genesis 38:22 · JPS 1917

And he returned to Judah, and said: 'I have not found her; and also the men of the place said: There hath been no harlot here.'

Who acts: Judah, I, men · What happens: return, say, not find · To what, where: Judah, harlot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 38:22 · 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, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 returned	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Judah	case
5	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 found	advmod
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
18	also	also	ADV	_	24 said	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 men	det
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 said	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 place	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 place	det
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 men	nmod
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 been	punct
26	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 been	expl
27	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 been	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 said	ccomp
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 harlot	det
30	harlot	harlot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 been	nsubj
31	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 been	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	return	past	Judah		Judah	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to judah=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	Judah not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not find	present · perfect	I	harlot		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	the men of the place			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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

וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ אֶל־יְהוּדָ֔ה וַיֹּ֖אמֶר לֹ֣א מְצָאתִ֑יהָ וְגַ֨ם אַנְשֵׁ֤י הַמָּקוֹם֙ אָֽמְר֔וּ לֹא־הָיְתָ֥ה בָזֶ֖ה קְדֵשָֽׁה׃

Genesis 38:22: 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:1239 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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