--- title: Genesis 2:3 (JPS 1917) — And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it… · tree and pragmatics description: And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made. Who acts: God. 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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 (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:36 # text = And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 blessed bless VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 seventh seventh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 hallowed hallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 16 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 rested rest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 obj _ _ 23 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 in in SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 creating create VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 acl:relcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | past | God | | | | day | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hallow** | past | God *not said here* | work | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **rest** | past | God | | | work | | from God's work | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in it=Location | | 4 | **create** | gerund | God *not said here* | | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | past · perfect | God | God's work | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product | | 6 | **work** | | God | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיְבָ֤רֶךְ אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־י֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י וַיְקַדֵּ֖שׁ אֹת֑וֹ כִּ֣י ב֤וֹ שָׁבַת֙ מִכָּל־מְלַאכְתּ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁר־בָּרָ֥א אֱלֹהִ֖ים לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃פ [Genesis 2:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:36` 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 2:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.35/) - next →: [Genesis 2:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.37/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 2:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.3/)