--- title: Genesis 3:1 (JPS 1917) — Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which th… · tree and pragmatics description: Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. Who acts: serpent, LORD God. Genesis 3:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.60/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/3/) / [3:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.1/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 3:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. **Who acts:** serpent, LORD God · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** beast This is Genesis 3:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (serpent, 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:60 # text = Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 6 subtle subtle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the serpent | | | | now | than any beast of the field; subtle *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | past · perfect | the LORD God | any beast of the field | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product | 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} וְהַנָּחָשׁ֙ הָיָ֣ה עָר֔וּם מִכֹּל֙ חַיַּ֣ת הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָׂ֖ה יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֑ים וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־הָ֣אִשָּׁ֔ה אַ֚ף כִּֽי־אָמַ֣ר אֱלֹהִ֔ים לֹ֣א תֹֽאכְל֔וּ מִכֹּ֖ל עֵ֥ץ הַגָּֽן׃ [Genesis 3:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.1/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.** 2. [And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.61/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:60` 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 2:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.59/) - next →: [Genesis 3:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.61/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 3:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.1/)