--- title: Genesis 38:17 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock.' A… · 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. 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And she said: 'Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?' **Who acts:** Judah, I, Tamar, thou · **What happens:** say, send, give · **To what, where:** kid, thee, flock, pledge, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 38:17 · 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 (Judah, I, Tamar, thou), 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:1234 # text = 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?' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 9 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 iobj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 20 And and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 25 Wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nsubj _ _ 27 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 pledge pledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 till till SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nsubj _ _ 34 send send VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 ? ? PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Judah | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **send** | future | I | a kid of the goats | thee | the flock | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tamar | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **give** | future | thou | a pledge | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pledge=Theme | | 5 | **send** | infinitive | thou | pledge | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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} וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אָנֹכִ֛י אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח גְּדִֽי־עִזִּ֖ים מִן־הַצֹּ֑אן וַתֹּ֕אמֶר אִם־תִּתֵּ֥ן עֵרָב֖וֹן עַ֥ד שָׁלְחֶֽךָ׃ [Genesis 38:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1234` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 38:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1233/) - next →: [Genesis 38:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1235/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 38:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.17/)