Genesis 23:16 · JPS 1917
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.
Who acts: Abraham, children · What happens: hearken, weigh, name, hear · To what, where: silver, Ephron, hearing
This is Genesis 23:16 · 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 (Abraham, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hearkened | cc |
| 2 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hearkened | nsubj |
| 3 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 Ephron | case |
| 5 | Ephron | Ephron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hearkened | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 weighed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 weighed | cc |
| 8 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 weighed | nsubj |
| 9 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hearkened | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Ephron | case |
| 11 | Ephron | Ephron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 weighed | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 silver | det |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weighed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 named | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 named | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 named | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 named | aux |
| 18 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 silver | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hearing | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hearing | det |
| 21 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 named | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 children | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 children | det |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hearing | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Heth | case |
| 26 | Heth | Heth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 children | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 shekels | punct |
| 28 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 hundred | nummod |
| 29 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 shekels | nummod |
| 30 | shekels | shekel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 silver | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 silver | case |
| 32 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shekels | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 money | punct |
| 34 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 money | amod |
| 35 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shekels | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 merchant | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 merchant | det |
| 38 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 money | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hearkened | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hearken | past | Abraham | unto Ephron | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weigh | past | Abraham | the silver | Ephron | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme silver=Value | |||
| 3 | name | past · perfect | Abraham | the silver | the hearing of the children of Heth | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 4 | hear | the children of Heth | 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
וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע אַבְרָהָם֮ אֶל־עֶפְרוֹן֒ וַיִּשְׁקֹ֤ל אַבְרָהָם֙ לְעֶפְרֹ֔ן אֶת־הַכֶּ֕סֶף אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבֶּ֖ר בְּאָזְנֵ֣י בְנֵי־חֵ֑ת אַרְבַּ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ שֶׁ֣קֶל כֶּ֔סֶף עֹבֵ֖ר לַסֹּחֵֽר׃
Genesis 23:16: 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:616 of Mova's parse database.
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