--- title: Genesis 38:29 — And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold his brot… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold his brother came out; and she said: 'Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself?' Therefore his name was called Perez. Who acts: child, midwife, brother, harlot. 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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 — child, midwife, brother, harlot, thou — and what happens in the verse to hand, breach, name, 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. וַיְהִ֣י ׀ כְּמֵשִׁ֣יב יָד֗וֹ וְהִנֵּה֙ יָצָ֣א אָחִ֔יו וַתֹּ֕אמֶר מַה־פָּרַ֖צְתָּ עָלֶ֣יךָ פָּ֑רֶץ וַיִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ פָּֽרֶץ׃ [And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold his brother came out; and she said: 'Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself?' Therefore his name was called Perez.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1246/) ## 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:1148 # text = וַיְהִ֣י ׀ כְּמֵשִׁ֣יב יָד֗וֹ וְהִנֵּה֙ יָצָ֣א אָחִ֔יו וַתֹּ֕אמֶר מַה־פָּרַ֖צְתָּ עָלֶ֣יךָ פָּ֑רֶץ וַיִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ פָּֽרֶץ׃ # verse = GEN.38.29 1-2 וַיְהִ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:29!1|MId=o010380290011|Strong=2050b 2 יְהִ֣י הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.was|Ref=GEN_38:29!1|MId=o010380290012|Strong=1961|Type=wayyiqtol 3 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 2 punct _ Ref=GEN_38:29!1 4-5 כְּמֵשִׁ֣יב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 כְּ כְּ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=just|Ref=GEN_38:29!2|MId=o010380290021|Strong=3509a 5 מֵשִׁ֣יב שׁוּב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing 2 advcl _ Gloss=as.[he.was].withdrawing|Ref=GEN_38:29!2|MId=o010380290022|Strong=7725|Frame=AA:010380300031;A0:010380290031;|Type=participle_active 6-7 יָד֗וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 יָד יָד NOUN _ Number=Sing 5 obj _ Gloss=hand|Ref=GEN_38:29!3|MId=o010380290031|Strong=3027 7 ֗וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_38:29!3|MId=o010380290032|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 8-9 וְהִנֵּה֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:29!4|MId=o010380290041|Strong=2050b 9 הִנֵּה֙ הִנֵּה INTJ _ _ 10 discourse _ Gloss=there!|Ref=GEN_38:29!4|MId=o010380290042|Strong=2009|Type=demonstrative 10 יָצָ֣א יָצָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.came.out|Ref=GEN_38:29!5|MId=o010380290051|Strong=3318|Frame=A0:010380290061;|Type=qatal 11-12 אָחִ֔יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 אָחִ֔י אָח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Gloss=brother|Ref=GEN_38:29!6|MId=o010380290061|Strong=0251 12 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_38:29!6|MId=o010380290062|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 13-14 וַתֹּ֕אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:29!7|MId=o010380290071|Strong=2050b 14 תֹּ֕אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=she.said|Ref=GEN_38:29!7|MId=o010380290072|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010380280062;|Type=wayyiqtol 15 מַה־ מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 14 ccomp _ Gloss=how!|Ref=GEN_38:29!8|MId=o010380290081|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative|SpaceAfter=No 16 פָּרַ֖צְתָּ פָּרַץ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 15 nsubj _ Gloss=you.have.made.a.breach|Ref=GEN_38:29!9|MId=o010380290091|Strong=6555|Frame=A0:010380290061;A1:010380290111;|Type=qatal 17-18 עָלֶ֣יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 עָלֶ֣י עַל ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=GEN_38:29!10|MId=o010380290101|Strong=5921 18 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ Gloss=yourself|Ref=GEN_38:29!10|MId=o010380290102|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 19 פָּ֑רֶץ פֶּרֶץ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 obj _ Gloss=a.breach|Ref=GEN_38:29!11|MId=o010380290111|Strong=6556 20-21 וַיִּקְרָ֥א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 21 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:29!12|MId=o010380290121|Strong=2050b 21 יִּקְרָ֥א קָרָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=someone.called|Ref=GEN_38:29!12|MId=o010380290122|Strong=7121|Frame=A0:;A1:010380290131;|Type=wayyiqtol 22-23 שְׁמ֖וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 שְׁמ שֵׁם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 21 obj _ Gloss=name|Ref=GEN_38:29!13|MId=o010380290131|Strong=8034 23 ֖וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_38:29!13|MId=o010380290132|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 24 פָּֽרֶץ פֶּרֶץ PROPN _ _ 21 xcomp _ Gloss=Perez|Ref=GEN_38:29!14|MId=o010380290141|Strong=6557|SpaceAfter=No 25 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 24 punct _ Ref=GEN_38:29!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | מֵשִׁיב *as \[he was\] withdrawing* | participle active · hiphil | יָד *hand* | | | | | יָצָא *he came out* | qatal · qal | אָחִי *brother* | | | | | תֹּאמֶר *she said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | פָּרַצְתָּ *you have made a breach* | qatal · qal | אָחִי *brother* | פָּרֶץ *a breach* | | | | יִּקְרָא *someone called* | wayyiqtol · qal | | שְׁמ *name* | | | 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} וַהֲוָה כַּד אֲתֵיב יְדֵהּ וְהָא נְפַק אֲחוּהִי וַאֲמֶרֶת מָה תְקוֹף סַגִּי עֲלָךְ לְמִתְקָף וּקְרָא שְׁמֵהּ פָּרֶץ 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 came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold his brother came out; and she said: 'Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself?' Therefore his name was called Perez.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1246/) **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:1148`. - ← previous: [Genesis 38:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.28/) - next →: [Genesis 38:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.30/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/38/)