--- title: Genesis 38:2 — And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in unto her. Who acts: Judah, name, Shua. Genesis 38:2 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.38.2/) [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/) / 38:2 # Genesis 38:2 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Judah, name, Shua · **What happens:** see, be, take, go in, name · **To what, where:** daughter, Shua This is Genesis 38:2 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, name, Shua — and what happens in the verse to daughter, Shua, 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. וַיַּרְא־שָׁ֧ם יְהוּדָ֛ה בַּת־אִ֥ישׁ כְּנַעֲנִ֖י וּשְׁמ֣וֹ שׁ֑וּעַ וַיִּקָּחֶ֖הָ וַיָּבֹ֥א אֵלֶֽיהָ׃ [And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in unto her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1218/) ## 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:1121 # text = וַיַּרְא־שָׁ֧ם יְהוּדָ֛ה בַּת־אִ֥ישׁ כְּנַעֲנִ֖י וּשְׁמ֣וֹ שׁ֑וּעַ וַיִּקָּחֶ֖הָ וַיָּבֹ֥א אֵלֶֽיהָ׃ # verse = GEN.38.2 1-2 וַיַּרְא־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:2!1|MId=o010380020011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּרְא־ רָאָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.saw|Ref=GEN_38:2!1|MId=o010380020012|Strong=7200|Frame=A0:010380020031;A1:010380020041;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 שָׁ֧ם שָׁם ADV _ _ 2 advmod _ Gloss=there|Ref=GEN_38:2!2|MId=o010380020021|Strong=8033 4 יְהוּדָ֛ה יְהוּדָה PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Judah|Ref=GEN_38:2!3|MId=o010380020031|Strong=3063 5 בַּת־ בַּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=a.daughter|Ref=GEN_38:2!4|MId=o010380020041|Strong=1323|SpaceAfter=No 6 אִ֥ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.man|Ref=GEN_38:2!5|MId=o010380020051|Strong=0376 7 כְּנַעֲנִ֖י כְּנַעֲנִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 appos _ Gloss=a.Canaanite|Ref=GEN_38:2!6|MId=o010380020061|Strong=3669|Type=gentilic 8-10 וּשְׁמ֣וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:2!7|MId=o010380020071|Strong=2050b 9 שְׁמ שֵׁם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Gloss=name|Ref=GEN_38:2!7|MId=o010380020072|Strong=8034 10 ֣וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_38:2!7|MId=o010380020073|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 11 שׁ֑וּעַ שׁוּעַ PROPN _ _ 2 conj _ Gloss=[was].Shua|Ref=GEN_38:2!8|MId=o010380020081|Strong=7770 12-14 וַיִּקָּחֶ֖הָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:2!9|MId=o010380020091|Strong=2050b 13 יִּקָּח לָקַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_38:2!9|MId=o010380020092|Strong=3947|Frame=A0:010380020031;A1:010380020093;|Type=wayyiqtol 14 ֶ֖הָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ Gloss=took.her|Ref=GEN_38:2!9|MId=o010380020093|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 15-16 וַיָּבֹ֥א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:2!10|MId=o010380020101|Strong=2050b 16 יָּבֹ֥א בּוֹא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.went|Ref=GEN_38:2!10|MId=o010380020102|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:010380020031;|Type=wayyiqtol 17-18 אֵלֶֽיהָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 אֵלֶֽי אֶל ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=into|Ref=GEN_38:2!11|MId=o010380020111|Strong=0413 18 הָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ Gloss=her|Ref=GEN_38:2!11|MId=o010380020112|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=GEN_38:2!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּרְא־ *he saw* | wayyiqtol · qal | יְהוּדָה *Judah* | בַּת־ *a daughter* | | | | יִּקָּח *he* | wayyiqtol · qal | יְהוּדָה *Judah* | ֶהָ *took her* | | | | יָּבֹא *he went* | wayyiqtol · qal | יְהוּדָה *Judah* | | | | 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} וַחֲזָא תַמָּן יְהוּדָה בַּת גְּבַר תַּגָּרָא וּשְׁמֵהּ שׁוּעַ וְנָסְבַהּ וְעַל לְוָתַהּ 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 Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in unto her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1218/) **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:1121`. - ← previous: [Genesis 38:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.1/) - next →: [Genesis 38:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.3/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/38/)