--- title: Genesis 6:5 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Who acts: LORD, wickedness, imagination. 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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, wickedness, imagination), 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:153 # text = And the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wickedness wickedness NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 imagination imagination NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 29 continually continually ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the LORD | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | past | the wickedness of man | | | the earth | | great *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | every imagination of the thoughts of LORD's heart | | | | | continually, evil *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **imagine** | | | the thoughts of LORD's heart | | | | | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **think** | | | LORD's heart | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיַּ֣רְא יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֥י רַבָּ֛ה רָעַ֥ת הָאָדָ֖ם בָּאָ֑רֶץ וְכָל־יֵ֙צֶר֙ מַחְשְׁבֹ֣ת לִבּ֔וֹ רַ֥ק רַ֖ע כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃ [Genesis 6:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:153` 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 6:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.152/) - next →: [Genesis 6:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.154/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 6:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.5/)