Genesis 38:28 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, when she travailed, that one put out a hand; and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying: 'This came out first.'

Who acts: child, harlot, one, midwife, This · What happens: come, pass, travail, put out, take, bind · To what, where: hand, scarlet thread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 38:28 · 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 (child, harlot, one, midwife), 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	nsubj
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	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 travailed	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 travailed	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 travailed	nsubj
9	travailed	travail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 put	mark
12	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pass	ccomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 put	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hand	det
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 midwife	det
20	midwife	midwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bound	cc
23	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bound	obl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 thread	det
28	scarlet	scarlet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thread	amod
29	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bound	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 bound	advcl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
34	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 saying	ccomp
36	out	out	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
37	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 came	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	child			tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	child not said here			tree rules
3	travail	past	harlot			tree rules
4	put out	past	one	a hand		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
5	take	past	the midwife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	bind	past	the midwife not said here	a scarlet thread	upon midwife's hand	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient
7	say speech: assert	gerund	the midwife not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	come out	past	This		first, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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

וַיְהִ֥י בְלִדְתָּ֖הּ וַיִּתֶּן־יָ֑ד וַתִּקַּ֣ח הַמְיַלֶּ֗דֶת וַתִּקְשֹׁ֨ר עַל־יָד֤וֹ שָׁנִי֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר זֶ֖ה יָצָ֥א רִאשֹׁנָֽה׃

Genesis 38:28: 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:1245 of Mova's parse database.

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