--- title: Genesis 3:13 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD God said unto the woman: 'What is this thou hast done?'… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD God said unto the woman: 'What is this thou hast done?' And the woman said: 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.' Who acts: LORD God, this, thou, woman. 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And the woman said: 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.' **Who acts:** LORD God, this, thou, woman, serpent, I · **What happens:** say, be, do, beguile, eat · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 3:13 · 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 (LORD God, this, thou, woman), 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:74 # text = And the LORD God said unto the woman: 'What is this thou hast done?' And the woman said: 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.' 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 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 unto unto ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 ccomp _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 13 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 nsubj _ _ 14 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 15 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 19 And and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 25 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 beguiled beguile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD God | | | | | unto the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | this | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | present · perfect | thou | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **beguile** | past | the serpent | me | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | | 6 | **eat** | past · do-support | I | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהִ֛ים לָאִשָּׁ֖ה מַה־זֹּ֣את עָשִׂ֑ית וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה הַנָּחָ֥שׁ הִשִּׁיאַ֖נִי וָאֹכֵֽל׃ [Genesis 3:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:74` 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 3:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.73/) - next →: [Genesis 3:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.75/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 3:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.13/)