Genesis 23:16 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: Abraham, children · What happens: hearken, weigh, name, hear · To what, where: silver, Ephron, hearing

This is Genesis 23:16 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Abraham, children — and what happens in the verse to silver, Ephron, hearing, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע אַבְרָהָם֮ אֶל־עֶפְרוֹן֒ וַיִּשְׁקֹ֤ל אַבְרָהָם֙ לְעֶפְרֹ֔ן אֶת־הַכֶּ֕סֶף אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבֶּ֖ר בְּאָזְנֵ֣י בְנֵי־חֵ֑ת אַרְבַּ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ שֶׁ֣קֶל כֶּ֔סֶף עֹבֵ֖ר לַסֹּחֵֽר׃

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יִּשְׁמַ֣ע	cc	and
2	יִּשְׁמַ֣ע	שָׁמַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he listened
3	אַבְרָהָם֮	אַבְרָהָם	PROPN	_	2 יִּשְׁמַ֣ע	nsubj	Abraham
4	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	5 עֶפְרוֹן֒	case	to
5	עֶפְרוֹן֒	עֶפְרוֹן	PROPN	_	2 יִּשְׁמַ֣ע	obl	Ephron
6	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	7 יִּשְׁקֹ֤ל	cc	and
7	יִּשְׁקֹ֤ל	שָׁקַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּשְׁמַ֣ע	conj	he weighed out
8	אַבְרָהָם֙	אַבְרָהָם	PROPN	_	7 יִּשְׁקֹ֤ל	nsubj	Abraham
9	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	10 עֶפְרֹ֔ן	case	for
10	עֶפְרֹ֔ן	עֶפְרוֹן	PROPN	_	7 יִּשְׁקֹ֤ל	obl	Ephron
11	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	13 כֶּ֕סֶף	case	(et)
12	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	13 כֶּ֕סֶף	det	the
13	כֶּ֕סֶף	כֶּסֶף	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 יִּשְׁקֹ֤ל	obj	money
14	אֲשֶׁ֥ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	15 דִּבֶּ֖ר	mark	which
15	דִּבֶּ֖ר	דָבַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3	13 כֶּ֕סֶף	acl:relcl	he had spoken
16	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	17 אָזְנֵ֣י	case	in
17	אָזְנֵ֣י	אֹזֶן	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Dual	15 דִּבֶּ֖ר	obl	the ears
18	בְנֵי־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	17 אָזְנֵ֣י	compound:smixut	of the people
19	חֵ֑ת	חֵת	PROPN	_	18 בְנֵי־	compound:smixut	of Heth
20	אַרְבַּ֤ע	אַרְבַּע	NUM	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	22 שֶׁ֣קֶל	nummod	four
21	מֵאוֹת֙	מֵאָה	NUM	Number=Plur	20 אַרְבַּ֤ע	flat	hundred(s)
22	שֶׁ֣קֶל	שֶׁקֶל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 כֶּ֕סֶף	appos	shekel[s]
23	כֶּ֔סֶף	כֶּסֶף	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	22 שֶׁ֣קֶל	compound:smixut	of silver
24	עֹבֵ֖ר	עָבַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	22 שֶׁ֣קֶל	acl:relcl	[which] passes along
25	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	27 סֹּחֵֽר	case	to
26	ה	הַ	SCONJ	_	27 סֹּחֵֽר	mark	the
27	סֹּחֵֽר	סָחַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	24 עֹבֵ֖ר	advcl	trader
28	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	27 סֹּחֵֽר	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יִּשְׁמַע he listened	wayyiqtol · qal	אַבְרָהָם Abraham
יִּשְׁקֹל he weighed out	wayyiqtol · qal	אַבְרָהָם Abraham	כֶּסֶף money
דִּבֶּר he had spoken	qatal · piel	עֶפְרֹן Ephron	כֶּסֶף money
עֹבֵר [which] passes along	participle active · qal	שֶׁקֶל shekel[s]

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

Targum Onkelos

וְקַבֵּל אַבְרָהָם מִן עֶפְרוֹן וּתְקַל אַבְרָהָם לְעֶפְרוֹן יָת כַּסְפָּא דְּמַלֵּיל קֳדָם בְּנֵי חִתָּאָה אַרְבַּע מְאָה סִלְעִין דִּכְסַף מִתְקַבֵּל סְחוֹרָא (נ''י דְּמִתְקַבֵּל סְחוֹרָתָא) בְּכָל מְדִינְתָּא

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:GEN:587.

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