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title: 1 Chronicles 2:3 (JPS 1917) — The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born u… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born unto him of Bath-shua the Canaanitess. 1 Chronicles 2:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 2:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born unto him of Bath-shua the Canaanitess.

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**What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** three

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This is 1 Chronicles 2:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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: 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:1CH:67
# text = The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born unto him of Bath-shua the Canaanitess.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Er	Er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Onan	Onan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Shelah	Shelah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	det	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Bath	Bath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	shua	shua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Canaanitess	Canaanitess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | which three |  |  |  | unto Judah; of Bath shua | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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 {#hebrew}

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בְּנֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֗ה עֵ֤ר וְאוֹנָן֙ וְשֵׁלָ֔ה שְׁלוֹשָׁה֙ נ֣וֹלַד ל֔וֹ מִבַּת־שׁ֖וּעַבַּת־שׁ֖וּעַ הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֑ית וַיְהִ֞י עֵ֣ר ׀ בְּכ֣וֹר יְהוּדָ֗ה רַ֛ע בְּעֵינֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה וַיְמִיתֵֽהוּ׃ס

[1 Chronicles 2:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born unto him of Bath-shua the Canaanitess.**
2. [And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and He slew him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.68/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:67` 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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