--- title: Genesis 2:9 (JPS 1917) — And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is p… · tree and pragmatics description: And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Who acts: LORD God, tree. 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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 God, tree), 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:42 # text = And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 6 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 also also ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 nmod _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 conj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **make** | past | | LORD God | | | | of the ground | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | LORD God *not said here* | every tree and the tree of life in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | every tree and the tree of life in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good | | | | | to the sight; pleasant *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | every tree and the tree of life in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good *not said here* | | | | | for food | 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} וַיַּצְמַ֞ח יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהִים֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה כָּל־עֵ֛ץ נֶחְמָ֥ד לְמַרְאֶ֖ה וְט֣וֹב לְמַאֲכָ֑ל וְעֵ֤ץ הַֽחַיִּים֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַגָּ֔ן וְעֵ֕ץ הַדַּ֖עַת ט֥וֹב וָרָֽע׃ [Genesis 2:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:42` 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 2:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.41/) - next →: [Genesis 2:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.43/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 2:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.9/)