--- title: Genesis 38:17 — And he said: 'I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock.' A… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And he said: 'I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock.' And she said: 'Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?' Who acts: Judah, I, Tamar, thou. Genesis 38:17 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.38.17/) [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/) / 38:17 # Genesis 38:17 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Judah, I, Tamar, thou · **What happens:** say, send, give · **To what, where:** kid, thee, flock, pledge, me · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 38:17 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 — Judah, I, Tamar, thou — and what happens in the verse to kid, thee, flock, pledge, me, 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. וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אָנֹכִ֛י אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח גְּדִֽי־עִזִּ֖ים מִן־הַצֹּ֑אן וַתֹּ֕אמֶר אִם־תִּתֵּ֥ן עֵרָב֖וֹן עַ֥ד שָׁלְחֶֽךָ׃ [And he said: 'I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock.' And she said: 'Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1234/) ## 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:1136 # text = וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אָנֹכִ֛י אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח גְּדִֽי־עִזִּ֖ים מִן־הַצֹּ֑אן וַתֹּ֕אמֶר אִם־תִּתֵּ֥ן עֵרָב֖וֹן עַ֥ד שָׁלְחֶֽךָ׃ # verse = GEN.38.17 1-2 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:17!1|MId=o010380170011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּ֕אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=GEN_38:17!1|MId=o010380170012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010380150021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אָנֹכִ֛י אָנֹכִי PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ Gloss=I|Ref=GEN_38:17!2|MId=o010380170021|Strong=0595|Type=personal 4 אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח שָׁלַח VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=1 2 ccomp _ Gloss=I.will.send|Ref=GEN_38:17!3|MId=o010380170031|Strong=7971|Frame=A0:010380170021;A1:010380170041;|Type=yiqtol 5 גְּדִֽי־ גְּדִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 obj _ Gloss=a.kid|Ref=GEN_38:17!4|MId=o010380170041|Strong=1423|SpaceAfter=No 6 עִזִּ֖ים עֵז NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.goats|Ref=GEN_38:17!5|MId=o010380170051|Strong=5795 7 מִן־ מִן ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=GEN_38:17!6|MId=o010380170061|Strong=4480|SpaceAfter=No 8-9 הַצֹּ֑אן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 9 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_38:17!7|MId=o010380170071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 9 צֹּ֑אן צֹאן NOUN _ Number=Sing 4 obl _ Gloss=flock|Ref=GEN_38:17!7|MId=o010380170072|Strong=6629 10-11 וַתֹּ֕אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:17!8|MId=o010380170081|Strong=2050b 11 תֹּ֕אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=she.said|Ref=GEN_38:17!8|MId=o010380170082|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010380130022;|Type=wayyiqtol 12 אִם־ אִם SCONJ _ _ 13 mark _ Gloss=if|Ref=GEN_38:17!9|MId=o010380170091|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No 13 תִּתֵּ֥ן נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 11 ccomp _ Gloss=you.will.give|Ref=GEN_38:17!10|MId=o010380170101|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:010380150021;A1:010380170111;|Type=yiqtol 14 עֵרָב֖וֹן עֵרָבוֹן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obj _ Gloss=a.pledge|Ref=GEN_38:17!11|MId=o010380170111|Strong=6162 15 עַ֥ד עַד ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=until|Ref=GEN_38:17!12|MId=o010380170121|Strong=5704 16-17 שָׁלְחֶֽךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 שָׁלְח שָׁלַח VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 13 xcomp _ Gloss=you|Ref=GEN_38:17!13|MId=o010380170131|Strong=7971|Frame=A0:010380170132;A1:010380170041;|Type=infinitive_construct 17 ֶֽךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ Gloss=send.[it]|Ref=GEN_38:17!13|MId=o010380170132|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=GEN_38:17!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | אֲשַׁלַּח *I will send* | yiqtol · piel | אָנֹכִי *I* | גְּדִֽי־ *a kid* | | | | תֹּאמֶר *she said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | תִּתֵּן *you will give* | yiqtol · qal | | עֵרָבוֹן *a pledge* | | | | שָׁלְח *you* | infinitive construct · qal | ֶֽךָ *send \[it\]* | גְּדִֽי־ *a kid* | | | 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} וַאֲמַר אֲנָא אֲשַׁלַּח גַּדְיָא בַר עִזֵּי מִן עָנָא וַאֲמֶרֶת אִם תִּתֵּן מַשְׁכּוֹנָא עַד דְּתִשְׁלָח 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 he said: 'I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock.' And she said: 'Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1234/) **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). 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