--- title: Genesis 38:13 — And it was told Tamar, saying: 'Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up t… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And it was told Tamar, saying: 'Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.' Who acts: father. Genesis 38:13 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/38/) / 38:13 # Genesis 38:13 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** father · **What happens:** tell, say, go up, shear · **To what, where:** process, Tamar, Timnah, sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 38:13 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 — father — and what happens in the verse to process, Tamar, Timnah, sheep, 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. וַיֻּגַּ֥ד לְתָמָ֖ר לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֵּ֥ה חָמִ֛יךְ עֹלֶ֥ה תִמְנָ֖תָה לָגֹ֥ז צֹאנֽוֹ׃ [And it was told Tamar, saying: 'Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1229/) ## The tree {#tree} 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:1132 # text = וַיֻּגַּ֥ד לְתָמָ֖ר לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֵּ֥ה חָמִ֛יךְ עֹלֶ֥ה תִמְנָ֖תָה לָגֹ֥ז צֹאנֽוֹ׃ # verse = GEN.38.13 1-2 וַיֻּגַּ֥ד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:13!1|MId=o010380130011|Strong=2050b 2 יֻּגַּ֥ד נָגַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HOPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.was.told|Ref=GEN_38:13!1|MId=o010380130012|Strong=5046|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 לְתָמָ֖ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_38:13!2|MId=o010380130021|Strong=3807a 4 תָמָ֖ר תָּמָר PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Tamar|Ref=GEN_38:13!2|MId=o010380130022|Strong=8559 5-6 לֵאמֹ֑ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 10 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=GEN_38:13!3|MId=o010380130031|Strong=3807a 6 אמֹ֑ר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 5 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=GEN_38:13!3|MId=o010380130032|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:;|Type=infinitive_construct 7 הִנֵּ֥ה הִנֵּה INTJ _ _ 10 discourse _ Gloss=there!|Ref=GEN_38:13!4|MId=o010380130041|Strong=2009|Type=demonstrative 8-9 חָמִ֛יךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 חָמִ֛י חָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Gloss=father-in-law|Ref=GEN_38:13!5|MId=o010380130051|Strong=2524 9 ךְ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=GEN_38:13!5|MId=o010380130052|Strong=3509c|Type=pronominal 10 עֹלֶ֥ה עָלָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 2 advcl _ Gloss=[is].going.up|Ref=GEN_38:13!6|MId=o010380130061|Strong=5927|Frame=A0:010380130051;|Type=participle_active 11-12 תִמְנָ֖תָה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 תִמְנָ֖ת תִּמְנָה PROPN _ _ 10 obl _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_38:13!7|MId=o010380130071|Strong=8553 12 ָה ה X _ _ 11 nmod _ Gloss=Timnah|Ref=GEN_38:13!7|MId=o010380130072|Strong=1886c|Type=directional_he 13-14 לָגֹ֥ז _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_38:13!8|MId=o010380130081|Strong=3807a 14 גֹ֥ז גָּזַז VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 10 advcl _ Gloss=shear|Ref=GEN_38:13!8|MId=o010380130082|Strong=1494|Frame=A0:010380130051;A1:010380130091;|Type=infinitive_construct 15-16 צֹאנֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 צֹאנ צֹאן NOUN _ Number=Sing 14 obj _ Gloss=sheep|Ref=GEN_38:13!9|MId=o010380130091|Strong=6629 16 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_38:13!9|MId=o010380130092|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 17 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 16 punct _ Ref=GEN_38:13!9 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אמֹר | infinitive construct · qal | | | | | | עֹלֶה *\[is\] going up* | participle active · qal | חָמִי *father-in-law* | | | | | גֹז *shear* | infinitive construct · qal | חָמִי *father-in-law* | צֹאנ *sheep* | | | 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} וְאִתְחַוָּא לְתָמָר לְמֵימָר הָא חֲמוּיִךְ סָלֵק לְתִמְנָת לְמֵיגַז עָנֵהּ The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} 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. 1. [And it was told Tamar, saying: 'Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1229/) **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:1132`. - ← previous: [Genesis 38:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.12/) - next →: [Genesis 38:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.14/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/38/)