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title: Genesis 3:18 (JPS 1917) — Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. Who acts: desire, thou. Genesis 3:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 3:18 · JPS 1917

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Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

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**Who acts:** desire, thou · **What happens:** bring, eat · **To what, where:** Thorns, thee, herb

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This is Genesis 3:18 · 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 (desire, 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:79
# text = Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
1	Thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	thistles	thistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | shall | desire | Thorns and thistles |  | thee |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thorn=Theme to thou=Destination |
| 2 | **eat** | shall | thou | the herb of the field |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=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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וְק֥וֹץ וְדַרְדַּ֖ר תַּצְמִ֣יחַֽ לָ֑ךְ וְאָכַלְתָּ֖ אֶת־עֵ֥שֶׂב הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃

[Genesis 3:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.18/)

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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:79` 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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