--- title: Genesis 3:3 (JPS 1917) — but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, Go… · tree and pragmatics description: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said: Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.' Who acts: tree, God, Ye. 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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 (tree, God, Ye), 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:63 # text = but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said: Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.' 1 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 17 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 31 cc _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nsubj _ _ 31 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nsubj _ _ 36 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the tree | | | the midst | | of the garden | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | God | | | | | of the fruit of the tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **eat** | shall | Ye | | | | | of garden | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source | | 4 | **touch** | shall | ye | garden | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | | 5 | **die** | present | ye | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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} וּמִפְּרִ֣י הָעֵץ֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּתוֹךְ־הַגָּן֒ אָמַ֣ר אֱלֹהִ֗ים לֹ֤א תֹֽאכְלוּ֙ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ וְלֹ֥א תִגְּע֖וּ בּ֑וֹ פֶּן־תְּמֻתֽוּן׃ [Genesis 3:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:63` 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 3:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.62/) - next →: [Genesis 3:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.64/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 3:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.3/)