Genesis 2:16 · JPS 1917
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;
Who acts: LORD, thou · What happens: command, say, eat · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 2:16 · 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 (LORD, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 commanded | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 commanded | nsubj |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 LORD | flat |
| 5 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commanded | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 commanded | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 eat | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 eat | punct |
| 12 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eat | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | nmod |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 eat | nsubj |
| 19 | mayest | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 eat | aux |
| 20 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 21 eat | advmod |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | the LORD | the man | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the LORD not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | eat | may | thou | of every tree of the garden; freely property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of tree=Source |
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
וַיְצַו֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֔ים עַל־הָֽאָדָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר מִכֹּ֥ל עֵֽץ־הַגָּ֖ן אָכֹ֥ל תֹּאכֵֽל׃
Genesis 2:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:50 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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