--- title: Genesis 2:9 — And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is p… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Who acts: LORD God, tree. 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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 — LORD God, tree — and what happens in the verse to LORD God, tree, 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. וַיַּצְמַ֞ח יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהִים֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה כָּל־עֵ֛ץ נֶחְמָ֥ד לְמַרְאֶ֖ה וְט֣וֹב לְמַאֲכָ֑ל וְעֵ֤ץ הַֽחַיִּים֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַגָּ֔ן וְעֵ֕ץ הַדַּ֖עַת ט֥וֹב וָרָֽע׃ [And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.42/) ## 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:39 # text = וַיַּצְמַ֞ח יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהִים֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה כָּל־עֵ֛ץ נֶחְמָ֥ד לְמַרְאֶ֖ה וְט֣וֹב לְמַאֲכָ֑ל וְעֵ֤ץ הַֽחַיִּים֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַגָּ֔ן וְעֵ֕ץ הַדַּ֖עַת ט֥וֹב וָרָֽע׃ # verse = GEN.2.9 1-2 וַיַּצְמַ֞ח _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_2:9!1|MId=o010020090011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּצְמַ֞ח צָמַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.made.sprout|Ref=GEN_2:9!1|MId=o010020090012|Strong=6779|Frame=AA:010020090021;A0:010020090071;010020090122;010020090162;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יְהוָ֤ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=GEN_2:9!2|MId=o010020090021|Strong=3068 4 אֱלֹהִים֙ אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 3 appos _ Gloss=God|Ref=GEN_2:9!3|MId=o010020090031|Strong=0430 5 מִן־ מִן ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=GEN_2:9!4|MId=o010020090041|Strong=4480|SpaceAfter=No 6-7 הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 הָ֣ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_2:9!5|MId=o010020090051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 אֲדָמָ֔ה אֲדָמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=ground|Ref=GEN_2:9!5|MId=o010020090052|Strong=0127 8 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=every|Ref=GEN_2:9!6|MId=o010020090061|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 9 עֵ֛ץ עֵץ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=tree|Ref=GEN_2:9!7|MId=o010020090071|Strong=6086 10 נֶחְמָ֥ד חָמַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing 8 acl:relcl _ Gloss=desirable|Ref=GEN_2:9!8|MId=o010020090081|Strong=2530|Frame=A0:010020090071;|Type=participle_active 11-12 לְמַרְאֶ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_2:9!9|MId=o010020090091|Strong=3807a 12 מַרְאֶ֖ה מַרְאֶה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Gloss=appearance|Ref=GEN_2:9!9|MId=o010020090092|Strong=4758 13-14 וְט֣וֹב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_2:9!10|MId=o010020090101|Strong=2050b 14 ט֣וֹב טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 conj _ Gloss=good|Ref=GEN_2:9!10|MId=o010020090102|Strong=2896|Type=adjective 15-16 לְמַאֲכָ֑ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=GEN_2:9!11|MId=o010020090111|Strong=3807a 16 מַאֲכָ֑ל מַאֲכָל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Gloss=food|Ref=GEN_2:9!11|MId=o010020090112|Strong=3978 17-18 וְעֵ֤ץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_2:9!12|MId=o010020090121|Strong=2050b 18 עֵ֤ץ עֵץ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 conj _ Gloss=the.tree|Ref=GEN_2:9!12|MId=o010020090122|Strong=6086 19-20 הַֽחַיִּים֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 הַֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 20 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=GEN_2:9!13|MId=o010020090131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 20 חַיִּים֙ חַיִּים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=life|Ref=GEN_2:9!13|MId=o010020090132|Strong=2416 21-22 בְּת֣וֹךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=[was].in|Ref=GEN_2:9!14|MId=o010020090141|Strong=0871a 22 ת֣וֹךְ תָּוֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 nmod _ Gloss=the.middle|Ref=GEN_2:9!14|MId=o010020090142|Strong=8432 23-24 הַגָּ֔ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 24 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=GEN_2:9!15|MId=o010020090151|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 24 גָּ֔ן גַּן NOUN _ Number=Sing 22 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.garden|Ref=GEN_2:9!15|MId=o010020090152|Strong=1588 25-26 וְעֵ֕ץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 25 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 26 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_2:9!16|MId=o010020090161|Strong=2050b 26 עֵ֕ץ עֵץ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 conj _ Gloss=the.tree|Ref=GEN_2:9!16|MId=o010020090162|Strong=6086 27-28 הַדַּ֖עַת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 27 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 28 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=GEN_2:9!17|MId=o010020090171|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 28 דַּ֖עַת דַּעַת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 26 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.knowledge|Ref=GEN_2:9!17|MId=o010020090172|Strong=1847 29 ט֥וֹב טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 28 compound:smixut _ Gloss=good|Ref=GEN_2:9!18|MId=o010020090181|Strong=2896|Type=adjective 30-31 וָרָֽע _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 30 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 31 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_2:9!19|MId=o010020090191|Strong=2050b 31 רָֽע רַע ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 29 conj _ Gloss=evil|Ref=GEN_2:9!19|MId=o010020090192|Strong=7451|Type=adjective 32 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 31 punct _ Ref=GEN_2:9!19 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּצְמַח *he made sprout* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | עֵץ *tree* + עֵץ *the tree* + עֵץ *the tree* | | | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | | נֶחְמָד *desirable* | participle active · niphal | עֵץ *tree* | | | | 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} וְאַצְמַח יְיָ אֱלֹהִים מִן אַרְעָא כָּל אִילַן דִּמְרַגֵּג לְמֶחֱזֵי וְטַב לְמֵיכַל וְאִילַן חַיָּא בִּמְצִיעוּת גִּינְתָא וְאִילַן דְּאָכְלִין פֵּירוֹהִי חַכִּימִין בֵּין טַב לְבִישׁ 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 out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.42/) **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:39`. - ← previous: [Genesis 2:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.8/) - next →: [Genesis 2:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.10/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/2/)