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title: Genesis 38:7 (JPS 1917) — And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him. Who acts: Er, LORD. Genesis 38:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 38:7 · JPS 1917

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And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.

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**Who acts:** Er, LORD · **What happens:** be, slay, sight · **To what, where:** sight, Judah, LORD

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This is Genesis 38:7 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Er, LORD), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:GEN:1223
# text = And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	Er	er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	born	born	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Er |  |  | the sight of the LORD |  | wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | past | the LORD | Judah |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וַיְהִ֗י עֵ֚ר בְּכ֣וֹר יְהוּדָ֔ה רַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיְמִתֵ֖הוּ יְהוָֽה׃

[Genesis 38:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.7/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1223` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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