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title: Genesis 2:8 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He pu… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed. Who acts: LORD God, God. Genesis 2:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 2:8 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.

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**Who acts:** LORD God, God · **What happens:** plant, put, form · **To what, where:** garden, Eden, man

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This is Genesis 2:8 · 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 (LORD God, 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:41
# text = And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	eastward	eastward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Eden	Eden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
20	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | past | the LORD God | a garden |  | Eden |  | eastward *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent garden=Theme in eden=Destination |
| 2 | **put** | past | God |  | the man | there |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Goal |
| 3 | **form** | past · perfect | God | the man |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whom=Theme |

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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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וַיִּטַּ֞ע יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהִ֛ים גַּן־בְעֵ֖דֶן מִקֶּ֑דֶם וַיָּ֣שֶׂם שָׁ֔ם אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָצָֽר׃

[Genesis 2:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.8/)

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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:41` 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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