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title: Genesis 3:23 (JPS 1917) — Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to ti… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. Who acts: LORD God. Genesis 3:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 3:23 · JPS 1917

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Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

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**Who acts:** LORD God · **What happens:** send, till, take · **To what, where:** Adam, garden, ground, God

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This is Genesis 3:23 · 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), 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:84
# text = Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
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	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Eden	Eden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	till	till	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **send** | past | the LORD God | Adam |  | the garden of Eden |  | forth, therefore *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from garden=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **till** | to-infinitive | the LORD God *not said here* | the ground |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past · passive |  | God |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from whence=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵ֛הוּ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים מִגַּן־עֵ֑דֶן לַֽעֲבֹד֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֻקַּ֖ח מִשָּֽׁם׃

[Genesis 3:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.23/)

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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:84` 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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