--- title: Genesis 2:15 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden t… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Who acts: LORD 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 (LORD 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:49 # text = And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 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 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Eden Eden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 dress dress VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **take** | past | the LORD God | | the man | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | | 2 | **put** | past | the LORD God *not said here* | | man | the garden of Eden | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | | 3 | **dress** | to-infinitive | the LORD God *not said here* | river | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the LORD God *not said here* | river | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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} וַיִּקַּ֛ח יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֑ם וַיַּנִּחֵ֣הוּ בְגַן־עֵ֔דֶן לְעָבְדָ֖הּ וּלְשָׁמְרָֽהּ׃ [Genesis 2:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:49` 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 2:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.48/) - next →: [Genesis 2:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.50/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 2:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.15/)