--- title: Genesis 3:24 (JPS 1917) — So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of… · tree and pragmatics description: So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way to the tree of life. Who acts: God, flaming sword. 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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, flaming sword), 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:85 # text = So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way to the tree of life. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Eden Eden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cherubim cherubim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 flaming flaming ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive out** | past | God | the man | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 2 | **place** | past | God | the cherubim and the flaming sword | | the east of the garden of Eden | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cherubim=Theme at east=Destination | | 3 | **turn** | past | the flaming sword | every way | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | the way | | | | to the tree of life | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | 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} וַיְגָ֖רֶשׁ אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֑ם וַיַּשְׁכֵּן֩ מִקֶּ֨דֶם לְגַן־עֵ֜דֶן אֶת־הַכְּרֻבִ֗ים וְאֵ֨ת לַ֤הַט הַחֶ֙רֶב֙ הַמִּתְהַפֶּ֔כֶת לִשְׁמֹ֕ר אֶת־דֶּ֖רֶךְ עֵ֥ץ הַֽחַיִּֽים׃ס [Genesis 3:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.24/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:85` 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 3:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.84/) - next →: [Genesis 4:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.86/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 3:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.24/)