Genesis 38:29 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold his brother came out; and she said: 'Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself?' Therefore his name was called Perez.

Who acts: child, midwife, brother, harlot, thou · What happens: come, pass, draw back, come out, say, make · To what, where: hand, breach, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 38:29 · 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, midwife, brother, harlot), 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 drew	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 drew	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drew	nsubj
9	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 drew	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hand	nmod:poss
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drew	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 behold	punct
16	behold	behold	INTJ	_	19 came	discourse
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brother	nmod:poss
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	ccomp
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
27	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	30 made	advmod
28	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 made	aux
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 made	nsubj
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 said	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 breach	det
32	breach	breach	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 thyself	case
34	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	30 made	obl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
37	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	41 called	advmod
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 name	nmod:poss
39	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 called	nsubj:pass
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 called	aux:pass
41	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	conj
42	Perez	Perez	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 called	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
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			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw back	past	midwife	midwife's hand		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	come out	past	midwife's brother		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	harlot			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	make	present · perfect	thou	a breach	for thyself; wherefore property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent breach=Product for thyself=Asset
7	call	past · passive		midwife's name	therefore property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
8	name		midwife			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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

וַיְהִ֣י ׀ כְּמֵשִׁ֣יב יָד֗וֹ וְהִנֵּה֙ יָצָ֣א אָחִ֔יו וַתֹּ֕אמֶר מַה־פָּרַ֖צְתָּ עָלֶ֣יךָ פָּ֑רֶץ וַיִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ פָּֽרֶץ׃

Genesis 38:29: 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:1246 of Mova's parse database.

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