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title: Genesis 1:11 (JPS 1917) — And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so. Who acts: God, earth, grass, fruit tree. Genesis 1:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 1:11 · JPS 1917

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And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.

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**Who acts:** God, earth, grass, fruit tree · **What happens:** say, let, put, yield, bearing, be · **To what, where:** earth, grass, seed, fruit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 1:11 · 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 (God, earth, grass, fruit tree), 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:12
# text = And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	yielding	yield	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
15	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	bearing	bearing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	acl	_	_
22	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	acl:relcl	_	_
31	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
38	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	parataxis	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | the earth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | the earth *not said here* | grass and herb and fruit tree |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent grass=Goal |
| 4 | **yield** | gerund | grass and herb and fruit tree *not said here* | seed |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 5 | **bearing** | gerund | fruit tree *not said here* | fruit |  |  | after earth's kind |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | the seed |  |  |  | upon the earth; thereof, wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | earth |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים תַּֽדְשֵׁ֤א הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ דֶּ֔שֶׁא עֵ֚שֶׂב מַזְרִ֣יעַ זֶ֔רַע עֵ֣ץ פְּרִ֞י עֹ֤שֶׂה פְּרִי֙ לְמִינ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר זַרְעוֹ־ב֖וֹ עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן׃

[Genesis 1:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.1.11/)

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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:12` 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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