--- title: Genesis 1:24 (JPS 1917) — And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after i… · tree and pragmatics description: And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.' And it was so. Who acts: God, earth. 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And it was so. **Who acts:** God, earth · **What happens:** say, let, bring forth, creep, be · **To what, where:** earth, living creature · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 1:24 · 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), 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:25 # text = And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.' 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 Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 forth forth ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 creeping creep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 amod _ _ 22 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 after after ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 34 And and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 3 parataxis _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request, polarity=none | # | 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 | **bring forth** | infinitive | the earth *not said here* | the living creature and cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after earth's kind | | | after earth's kind | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient | | 4 | **creep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | earth | | | | | so *property* | tree rules | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים תּוֹצֵ֨א הָאָ֜רֶץ נֶ֤פֶשׁ חַיָּה֙ לְמִינָ֔הּ בְּהֵמָ֥ה וָרֶ֛מֶשׂ וְחַֽיְתוֹ־אֶ֖רֶץ לְמִינָ֑הּ וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן׃ [Genesis 1:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.1.24/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:25` 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 1:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.24/) - next →: [Genesis 1:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.26/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 1:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.1.24/)