Genesis 23:10 · JPS 1917

Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying:

Who acts: Ephron, children · What happens: sit, answer, go in, say, hear · To what, where: midst, Abraham, hearing, gate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 23:10 · 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 (Ephron, children), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sitting	advmod
2	Ephron	Ephron	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 midst	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 midst	det
7	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 children	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 midst	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Heth	case
12	Heth	Heth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 children	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 answered	cc
15	Ephron	Ephron	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 answered	nsubj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Hittite	det
17	Hittite	Hittite	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Ephron	appos
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	conj
19	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 answered	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hearing	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hearing	det
22	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answered	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 children	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 children	det
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hearing	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Heth	case
27	Heth	Heth	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 children	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 all	punct
29	even	even	ADV	_	31 all	advmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	25 children	nmod
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 all	acl:relcl
34	in	in	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 gate	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 gate	det
37	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 city	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 city	nmod:poss
40	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gate	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 saying	punct
42	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 answered	advcl
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Ephron		the midst of the children of Heth	now	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location
2	answer speech: assert	past	Ephron	Abraham	the hearing of the children of Heth of all		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent abraham=Eventuality
3	go in	past			the gate of Abraham's city		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at gate=Location
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Ephron not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	hear		the children of Heth of all				nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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

וְעֶפְר֥וֹן יֹשֵׁ֖ב בְּת֣וֹךְ בְּנֵי־חֵ֑ת וַיַּעַן֩ עֶפְר֨וֹן הַחִתִּ֤י אֶת־אַבְרָהָם֙ בְּאָזְנֵ֣י בְנֵי־חֵ֔ת לְכֹ֛ל בָּאֵ֥י שַֽׁעַר־עִיר֖וֹ לֵאמֹֽר׃

Genesis 23:10: 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:610 of Mova's parse database.

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