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title: Genesis 1:12 (JPS 1917) — And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Who acts: earth, herb, tree, God. Genesis 1:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 1:12 · JPS 1917

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And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

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

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This is Genesis 1:12 · 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 (earth, herb, tree, God), 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:13
# text = And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	yielding	yield	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	bearing	bearing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	_
24	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the earth | grass and herb and tree |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grass=Theme |
| 2 | **yield** | gerund | herb *not said here* | seed |  |  | after earth's kind |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 3 | **bearing** | gerund | tree *not said here* | fruit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | tree *not said here* | the seed |  |  | after earth's kind | thereof, wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past | earth |  |  |  |  | good *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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וַתּוֹצֵ֨א הָאָ֜רֶץ דֶּ֠שֶׁא עֵ֣שֶׂב מַזְרִ֤יעַ זֶ֙רַע֙ לְמִינֵ֔הוּ וְעֵ֧ץ עֹֽשֶׂה־פְּרִ֛יאֲשֶׁ֥ר זַרְעוֹ־ב֖וֹ לְמִינֵ֑הוּ וַיַּ֥רְא אֱלֹהִ֖ים כִּי־טֽוֹב׃

[Genesis 1:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.1.12/)

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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:13` 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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