Genesis 23:15 · JPS 1917

'My lord, hearken unto me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.'

Who acts: you · What happens: hearken, be, bury · To what, where: that, dead

This is Genesis 23:15 · 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), 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 hearken	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lord	nmod:poss
3	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hearken	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lord	punct
5	hearken	hearken	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	unto	unto	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hearken	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 hearken	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 piece	det
10	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 what	dislocated
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 land	case
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 piece	nmod
13	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 piece	amod
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hundred	compound
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 shekels	nummod
16	shekels	shekel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 worth	obl:unmarked
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 silver	case
18	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shekels	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 what	punct
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 hearken	parataxis
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 that	cop
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 what	nsubj
23	betwixt	betwixt	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 what	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thee	cc
26	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 me	conj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 what	punct
28	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 hearken	parataxis
29	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	28 bury	advmod
30	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 dead	nmod:poss
31	dead	dead	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bury	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 bury	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 hearken	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hearken	imperative	you not said here		unto me; My lord vocative	tree rules
2	is a	present		that		tree rules
3	bury	infinitive		thy dead	therefore property	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

אֲדֹנִ֣י שְׁמָעֵ֔נִי אֶרֶץ֩ אַרְבַּ֨ע מֵאֹ֧ת שֶֽׁקֶל־כֶּ֛סֶף בֵּינִ֥י וּבֵֽינְךָ֖ מַה־הִ֑וא וְאֶת־מֵתְךָ֖ קְבֹֽר׃

Genesis 23:15: 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:615 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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