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title: Genesis 38:12 (JPS 1917) — And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. Who acts: daughter, Judah. Genesis 38:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 38:12 · JPS 1917

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And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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**Who acts:** daughter, Judah · **What happens:** die, comfort, go up, process · **To what, where:** Judah, Timnah, time

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This is Genesis 38:12 · 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 (daughter, Judah), 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:1228
# text = And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Shua	Shua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
15	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RP	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sheep	hang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	shearers	shearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Timnah	Timnah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	Hirah	Hirah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Adullamite	Adullamite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Shua's daughter |  |  |  |  | in process of time | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in process=Attribute |
| 2 | **comfort** | past · passive |  | Judah |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go up** | past | Judah |  | Timnah |  |  | unto Judah's sheep shearers | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **process** |  |  | time |  |  |  |  | nom process «act 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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וַיִּרְבּוּ֙ הַיָּמִ֔ים וַתָּ֖מָת בַּת־שׁ֣וּעַ אֵֽשֶׁת־יְהוּדָ֑ה וַיִּנָּ֣חֶם יְהוּדָ֗ה וַיַּ֜עַל עַל־גֹּֽזֲזֵ֤י צֹאנוֹ֙ ה֗וּא וְחִירָ֛ה רֵעֵ֥הוּ הָעֲדֻלָּמִ֖י תִּמְנָֽתָה׃

[Genesis 38:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.12/)

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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:1228` 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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