--- title: Genesis 3:16 (JPS 1917) — Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy tr… · tree and pragmatics description: Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.' Who acts: God, I, thou, desire. 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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 (God, I, thou, desire), 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:77 # text = Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.' 1 Unto unto ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 multiply multiply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 12 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 travail travail NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 20 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 21 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 23 forth forth ADV RB _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 rule rule VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 38 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 42 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - 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 | God | | | | | unto the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **multiply** | future | I | thy pain and thy travail | | | | greatly *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | | 3 | **bring forth** | shall | thou | children | | pain | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 4 | **is** | shall | thy desire | | | | | to thy husband | tree rules | | 5 | **rule** | shall | God | | | thee | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **pain** | | thy | | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **travail** | | thy | | | | | | nom travail «state intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **desire** | | thy | | | | | | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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} אֶֽל־הָאִשָּׁ֣ה אָמַ֗ר הַרְבָּ֤ה אַרְבֶּה֙ עִצְּבוֹנֵ֣ךְ וְהֵֽרֹנֵ֔ךְ בְּעֶ֖צֶב תֵּֽלְדִ֣י בָנִ֑ים וְאֶל־אִישֵׁךְ֙ תְּשׁ֣וּקָתֵ֔ךְ וְה֖וּא יִמְשָׁל־בָּֽךְ׃ס [Genesis 3:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:77` 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 3:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.76/) - next →: [Genesis 3:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.78/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 3:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.16/)