Genesis 23:6 · JPS 1917

'Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.'

Who acts: you, thou, none · What happens: hear, be, bury, withhold · To what, where: us, mighty prince, dead, choice, sepulchre, thee

This is Genesis 23:6 · 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 (you, thou, none), 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	_	2 Hear	punct
2	Hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Hear	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lord	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lord	nmod:poss
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hear	vocative
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 prince	punct
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 prince	nsubj
9	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 prince	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 prince	det
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 prince	amod
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hear	parataxis
13	among	among	ADP	_	14 us	case
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 prince	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 bury	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 choice	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 choice	det
18	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bury	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sepulchres	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sepulchres	nmod:poss
21	sepulchres	sepulchre	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 choice	nmod
22	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Hear	parataxis
23	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 dead	nmod:poss
24	dead	dead	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bury	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 withhold	punct
26	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	30 withhold	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 none	nmod
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 withhold	aux
30	withhold	withhold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Hear	parataxis
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 thee	case
32	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 withhold	obl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sepulchre	nmod:poss
34	sepulchre	sepulchre	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 withhold	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 bury	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 bury	cc
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 bury	mark
38	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 bury	nsubj
39	mayest	may	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	40 bury	aux
40	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 withhold	conj
41	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	42 dead	nmod:poss
42	dead	dead	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bury	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hear	punct
44	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hear	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: offer
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=offer, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	imperative	you not said here	us		my lord vocative	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus
2	is a	present	thou	a mighty prince		among us	tree rules
3	bury	present		thy dead	the choice of our sepulchres		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme in choice=Destination
4	withhold	shall	none	Abraham's sepulchre	thee		tree rules
5	bury	may	thou	thy dead			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=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

שְׁמָעֵ֣נוּ ׀ אֲדֹנִ֗י נְשִׂ֨יא אֱלֹהִ֤ים אַתָּה֙ בְּתוֹכֵ֔נוּ בְּמִבְחַ֣ר קְבָרֵ֔ינוּ קְבֹ֖ר אֶת־מֵתֶ֑ךָ אִ֣ישׁ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ אֶת־קִבְר֛וֹ לֹֽא־יִכְלֶ֥ה מִמְּךָ֖ מִקְּבֹ֥ר מֵתֶֽךָ׃

Genesis 23:6: 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:606 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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