Genesis 38:24 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying: 'Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by harlotry.' And Judah said: 'Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.'

Who acts: Tamar, harlot, Judah · What happens: come, pass, tell, say, play, be · To what, where: place, Judah, harlot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 38:24 · 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 (Tamar, harlot, 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 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	expl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 three	advmod
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 months	nummod
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 after	obl:unmarked
9	after	after	ADV	_	5 pass	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 told	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	aux:pass
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	csubj
15	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 told	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saying	punct
17	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 told	advcl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 played	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 played	punct
20	Tamar	Tamar	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 played	nsubj
21	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 daughter	nmod:poss
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Tamar	appos
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 in	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 law	case
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 law	punct
26	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 daughter	nmod
27	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 played	aux
28	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 saying	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 harlot	det
30	harlot	harlot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 played	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 child	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 child	cc
33	moreover	moreover	ADV	_	40 child	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 behold	punct
35	behold	behold	INTJ	_	40 child	discourse
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 behold	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 child	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 child	cop
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 child	case
40	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 played	conj
41	by	by	ADP	_	42 harlotry	case
42	harlotry	harlotry	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 child	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 played	punct
44	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 played	punct
45	And	and	CCONJ	_	47 said	cc
46	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 said	nsubj
47	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	50 Bring	punct
49	'	'	PUNCT	_	50 Bring	punct
50	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	47 said	ccomp
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 Bring	obj
52	forth	forth	ADV	_	50 Bring	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 let	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 let	cc
55	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	50 Bring	conj
56	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 let	obj
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 burnt	aux:pass
58	burnt	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 let	xcomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 Bring	punct
60	'	'	PUNCT	_	50 Bring	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past		place			tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive				after property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past · passive		place	Judah		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient judah=Topic
4	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	play	present · perfect	Tamar	the harlot			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harlot=Theme
6	is	present	harlot			with child; by harlotry; moreover property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	Judah				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	bring	infinitive			harlot	forth property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
9	let	infinitive		harlot			tree rules
10	burn	infinitive · passive	harlot not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»

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

וַיְהִ֣י ׀ כְּמִִשְׁלֹ֣שׁחֳדָשִׁ֗ים וַיֻּגַּ֨ד לִֽיהוּדָ֤ה לֵֽאמֹר֙ זָֽנְתָה֙ תָּמָ֣ר כַּלָּתֶ֔ךָ וְגַ֛ם הִנֵּ֥ה הָרָ֖ה לִזְנוּנִ֑ים וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוּדָ֔ה הוֹצִיא֖וּהָ וְתִשָּׂרֵֽף׃

Genesis 38:24: 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:1241 of Mova's parse database.

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