Genesis 23:17 · JPS 1917
So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border thereof round about, were made sure
Who acts: field, cave, trees · What happens: be, make · To what, where: Machpelah, field, border
This is Genesis 23:17 · 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 (field, cave, trees), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 48 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 field | det |
| 3 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ephron | case |
| 5 | Ephron | Ephron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 field | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Machpelah | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 Machpelah | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Machpelah | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Machpelah | case |
| 10 | Machpelah | Machpelah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 field | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Mamre | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 Mamre | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Mamre | cop |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 Mamre | case |
| 15 | Mamre | Mamre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 field | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 field | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 field | det |
| 18 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 field | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cave | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cave | det |
| 22 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 field | conj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 therein | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 therein | cop |
| 25 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 22 cave | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 trees | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 trees | cc |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 trees | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 trees | det |
| 30 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 made | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 field | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 field | cop |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 field | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 field | det |
| 35 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 trees | acl:relcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 border | punct |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 border | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 border | cop |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 border | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 border | det:predet |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 border | det |
| 42 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 field | acl:relcl |
| 43 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 42 border | advmod |
| 44 | round | round | ADV | _ | 45 about | advmod |
| 45 | about | about | ADV | _ | 43 thereof | advmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 trees | punct |
| 47 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 made | aux:pass |
| 48 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 49 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 made | xcomp |
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 | is | past | the field of Ephron and the cave | Machpelah | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the field of Ephron and the cave | before Mamre | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the cave | therein property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | all trees | the field | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the field | all border | thereof property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | make | past · passive | the field of Ephron and the cave | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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
וַיָּ֣קָם ׀ שְׂדֵ֣ה עֶפְר֗וֹן אֲשֶׁר֙ בַּמַּכְפֵּלָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר לִפְנֵ֣י מַמְרֵ֑א הַשָּׂדֶה֙ וְהַמְּעָרָ֣ה אֲשֶׁר־בּ֔וֹ וְכָל־הָעֵץ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר בְּכָל־גְּבֻל֖וֹ סָבִֽיב׃
Genesis 23:17: 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:617 of Mova's parse database.
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