--- title: Genesis 3:8 (JPS 1917) — And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden towar… · tree and pragmatics description: And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. Who acts: eyes, voice, man. 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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 (eyes, voice, man), 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:68 # text = And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 9 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 toward toward ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cool cool NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 obj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ _ 35 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 amongst amongst ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **hear** | past | eyes *= eye* | the voice of the LORD God | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | the voice of the LORD God *not said here* | | | the garden | | toward the cool of the day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | | 3 | **hide** | past | the man and God's wife | eyes *= eye* | | the presence of the LORD God | | amongst the trees of the garden | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient from presence=Beneficiary | 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} וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֞וּ אֶת־ק֨וֹל יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהִ֛ים מִתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ בַּגָּ֖ן לְר֣וּחַ הַיּ֑וֹם וַיִּתְחַבֵּ֨א הָֽאָדָ֜ם וְאִשְׁתּ֗וֹ מִפְּנֵי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֔ים בְּת֖וֹךְ עֵ֥ץ הַגָּֽן׃ [Genesis 3:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:68` 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 3:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.67/) - next →: [Genesis 3:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.69/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 3:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.8/)