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title: Genesis 1:29 (JPS 1917) — And God said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: And God said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed — to you it shall be for food; Who acts: God, I, herb, fruit. Genesis 1:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Genesis 1:29 · JPS 1917

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And God said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed — to you it shall be for food;

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**Who acts:** God, I, herb, fruit, tree · **What happens:** say, give, yield, be · **To what, where:** herb, you, seed, tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 1:29 · 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, I, herb, fruit), 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:30
# text = And God said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed — to you it shall be for food;
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	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
6	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	yielding	yield	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	yielding	yield	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
40	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	cop	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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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 | **give** | present · perfect | I | every herb and every tree | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient herb=Theme |
| 3 | **yield** | gerund | every herb and every tree *not said here* | seed |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | every herb and every tree |  |  |  |  | upon the face; of all earth | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the fruit of a tree | every tree *not said here* |  | every herb and every tree |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **yield** | gerund | a tree *not said here* | seed |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | shall | fruit |  | you |  |  | for food | 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 הִנֵּה֩ נָתַ֨תִּי לָכֶ֜ם אֶת־כָּל־עֵ֣שֶׂב ׀ זֹרֵ֣עַ זֶ֗רַע אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י כָל־הָאָ֔רֶץ וְאֶת־כָּל־הָעֵ֛ץ אֲשֶׁר־בּ֥וֹ פְרִי־עֵ֖ץ זֹרֵ֣עַ זָ֑רַע לָכֶ֥ם יִֽהְיֶ֖ה לְאָכְלָֽה׃

[Genesis 1:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.1.29/)

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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:30` 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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