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title: Genesis 2:10 (JPS 1917) — And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it… · tree and pragmatics
description: And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads. Who acts: river. Genesis 2:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 2:10 · JPS 1917

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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.

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**Who acts:** river · **What happens:** go out, water, part, become · **To what, where:** Eden, garden, four heads

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This is Genesis 2:10 · 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 (river), 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:43
# text = And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	Eden	Eden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	water	water	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	18	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **go out** | past | a river | Eden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **water** | to-infinitive | a river *not said here* | the garden |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent garden=Destination |
| 3 | **part** | past · passive |  | garden |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from thence=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **become** | past | a river *not said here* | four heads |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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וְנָהָרּ֙יֹצֵ֣א מֵעֵ֔דֶן לְהַשְׁק֖וֹת אֶת־הַגָּ֑ן וּמִשָּׁם֙ יִפָּרֵ֔ד וְהָיָ֖ה לְאַרְבָּעָ֥ה רָאשִֽׁים׃

[Genesis 2:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.10/)

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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:43` 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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