Genesis 23:4 · JPS 1917
'I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.'
Who acts: I, my · What happens: be, give, bury, possess, sight · To what, where: stranger, possession, me, dead, sight, burying place
This is Genesis 23:4 · 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 (I, my), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stranger | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stranger | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stranger | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stranger | det |
| 5 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sojourner | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sojourner | det |
| 8 | sojourner | sojourner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stranger | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 sojourner | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stranger | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 possession | det |
| 15 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 18 | burying | burying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 burying | punct |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 possession | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 place | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bury | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 bury | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 bury | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 bury | aux |
| 27 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 give | advcl |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 dead | nmod:poss |
| 29 | dead | dead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bury | obj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 sight | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 sight | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 sight | nmod:poss |
| 33 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bury | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stranger | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stranger | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a stranger and a sojourner with you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | a possession of a burying place with you | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient possession=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bury | may | I | my dead | my sight | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme out sight=Destination | |||
| 4 | possess | a burying place with you | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | sight | my | nom sight «cognition 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
גֵּר־וְתוֹשָׁ֥ב אָנֹכִ֖י עִמָּכֶ֑ם תְּנ֨וּ לִ֤י אֲחֻזַּת־קֶ֙בֶר֙ עִמָּכֶ֔ם וְאֶקְבְּרָ֥ה מֵתִ֖י מִלְּפָנָֽי׃
Genesis 23:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:604 of Mova's parse database.
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