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title: 1 Chronicles 2:4 (JPS 1917) — And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. Who acts: Tamar. 1 Chronicles 2:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Chronicles 2:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah.

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**Who acts:** Tamar · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** Perez, three

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This is 1 Chronicles 2:4 · 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: who acts (Tamar), 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:69
# text = And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	Tamar	Tamar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
9	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	Perez	Perez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Zerah	Zerah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | Tamar | Perez and Zerah | three |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary perez=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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וְתָמָר֙ כַּלָּת֔וֹ יָ֥לְדָה לּ֖וֹ אֶת־פֶּ֣רֶץ וְאֶת־זָ֑רַח כָּל־בְּנֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה חֲמִשָּֽׁה׃ס

[1 Chronicles 2:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah.**
2. [All the sons of Judah were five.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.70/)

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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:69` 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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