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title: Genesis 3:14 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD God said unto the serpent: 'Because thou hast done this… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD God said unto the serpent: 'Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou from among all cattle, and from among all beasts of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. Who acts: LORD God, thou. Genesis 3:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency 
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# Genesis 3:14 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD God said unto the serpent: 'Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou from among all cattle, and from among all beasts of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

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**Who acts:** LORD God, thou · **What happens:** say, do, curse, go, eat · **To what, where:** this, thou, belly, dust · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 3:14 · 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, thou), 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:75
# text = And the LORD God said unto the serpent: 'Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou from among all cattle, and from among all beasts of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
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	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
11	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
17	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
18	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
37	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nsubj	_	_
39	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
43	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	45	nsubj	_	_
45	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
46	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	48	det:predet	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl:unmarked	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD God |  |  |  |  | unto the serpent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | present · perfect | thou | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 3 | **curse** | present · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | from all cattle and all beasts of the field | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | shall | thou |  |  | thy belly |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon belly=Location |
| 5 | **eat** | shall | thou | dust |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Patient |

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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}

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וַיֹּאמֶר֩ יְהֹוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֥ים ׀ אֶֽל־הַנָּחָשׁ֮ כִּ֣י עָשִׂ֣יתָ זֹּאת֒ אָר֤וּר אַתָּה֙ מִכָּל־הַבְּהֵמָ֔ה וּמִכֹּ֖ל חַיַּ֣ת הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה עַל־גְּחֹנְךָ֣ תֵלֵ֔ךְ וְעָפָ֥ר תֹּאכַ֖ל כָּל־יְמֵ֥י חַיֶּֽיךָ׃

[Genesis 3:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.14/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:75` 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.

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