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title: Genesis 19:38 — And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi —… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi — the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. Who acts: younger, same. Genesis 19:38 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 19:38 בְּרֵאשִׁית

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**Who acts:** younger, same · **What happens:** bear, call, be, name · **To what, where:** son, name, father · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Genesis 19:38 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — younger, same — and what happens in the verse to son, name, father, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וְהַצְּעִירָ֤ה גַם־הִוא֙ יָ֣לְדָה בֵּ֔ן וַתִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ בֶּנ־עַמִּ֑יבֶּנ־עַמִּ֑י ה֛וּא אֲבִ֥י בְנֵֽי־עַמּ֖וֹן עַד־הַיּֽוֹם׃ס

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[And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi — the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.520/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:GEN:495
# text = וְהַצְּעִירָ֤ה גַם־הִוא֙ יָ֣לְדָה בֵּ֔ן וַתִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ בֶּנ־עַמִּ֑יבֶּנ־עַמִּ֑י ה֛וּא אֲבִ֥י בְנֵֽי־עַמּ֖וֹן עַד־הַיּֽוֹם׃ס
# verse = GEN.19.38
1-3	וְהַצְּעִירָ֤ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	6	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_19:38!1|MId=o010190380011|Strong=2050b
2	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	3	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_19:38!1|MId=o010190380012|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
3	צְּעִירָ֤ה	צָעִיר	ADJ	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	6	dislocated	_	Gloss=young|Ref=GEN_19:38!1|MId=o010190380013|Strong=6810|Type=adjective
4	גַם־	גַּם	ADV	_	_	5	advmod	_	Gloss=also|Ref=GEN_19:38!2|MId=o010190380021|Strong=1571|SpaceAfter=No
5	הִוא֙	הִיא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	Gloss=she|Ref=GEN_19:38!3|MId=o010190380031|Strong=1931a|Type=personal
6	יָ֣לְדָה	יָלַד	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=she.bore|Ref=GEN_19:38!4|MId=o010190380041|Strong=3205|Frame=A0:010190380031;A1:010190380051;|Type=qatal
7	בֵּ֔ן	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Gloss=a.son|Ref=GEN_19:38!5|MId=o010190380051|Strong=1121
8-9	וַתִּקְרָ֥א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	9	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_19:38!6|MId=o010190380061|Strong=2050b
9	תִּקְרָ֥א	קָרָא	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	6	conj	_	Gloss=she.called|Ref=GEN_19:38!6|MId=o010190380062|Strong=7121|Frame=A0:010190380013;A1:010190380071;|Type=wayyiqtol
10-11	שְׁמ֖וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	שְׁמ	שֵׁם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Gloss=name|Ref=GEN_19:38!7|MId=o010190380071|Strong=8034
11	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_19:38!7|MId=o010190380072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
12-13	בֶּנ־עַמִּ֑יבֶּנ־עַמִּ֑י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	בֶּנ־עַמִּ֑י	בֶּן־עַמִּי	PROPN	_	_	9	dep	_	Gloss=Ben-Ammi|Ref=GEN_19:38!8|MId=o010190380081
13	בֶּנ־עַמִּ֑י	בֶּןעַמִּי	PROPN	_	_	9	dep	_	Gloss=Ben-Ammi|Ref=GEN_19:38!9|MId=o010190380091
14	ה֛וּא	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_19:38!10|MId=o010190380101|Strong=1931|Type=personal
15	אֲבִ֥י	אָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Gloss=[is].the.ancestor|Ref=GEN_19:38!11|MId=o010190380111|Strong=0001
16	בְנֵֽי־	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	15	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.the.people|Ref=GEN_19:38!12|MId=o010190380121|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No
17	עַמּ֖וֹן	עַמּוֹן	PROPN	_	_	16	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Ammon|Ref=GEN_19:38!13|MId=o010190380131|Strong=5983
18	עַד־	עַד	ADP	_	_	20	case	_	Gloss=until|Ref=GEN_19:38!14|MId=o010190380141|Strong=5704|SpaceAfter=No
19-20	הַיּֽוֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	20	det	_	Gloss=this|Ref=GEN_19:38!15|MId=o010190380151|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
20	יּֽוֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Gloss=day|Ref=GEN_19:38!15|MId=o010190380152|Strong=3117
21	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	20	punct	_	Ref=GEN_19:38!15|SpaceAfter=No
22	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	_	20	punct	_	Ref=GEN_19:38!15
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יָלְדָה *she bore* | qatal · qal | הִוא *she* | בֵּן *a son* |  |  |
| תִּקְרָא *she called* | wayyiqtol · qal | צְּעִירָה *young* | שְׁמ *name* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos}

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וּזְעֶרְתָּא אַף הִיא יְלִידַת בַּר וּקְרַת שְׁמֵהּ בַּר עַמִּי הוּא אֲבוּהוֹן דִּבְנֵי עַמּוֹן עַד יוֹמָא דֵין

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi — the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.520/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:GEN:495`.

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