--- title: Genesis 23:15 — 'My lord, hearken unto me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekel… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: '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. Genesis 23:15 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/23/) / 23:15 # Genesis 23:15 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hearken, be, bury · **To what, where:** that, dead This is Genesis 23:15 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — you — and what happens in the verse to that, dead, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. אֲדֹנִ֣י שְׁמָעֵ֔נִי אֶרֶץ֩ אַרְבַּ֨ע מֵאֹ֧ת שֶֽׁקֶל־כֶּ֛סֶף בֵּינִ֥י וּבֵֽינְךָ֖ מַה־הִ֑וא וְאֶת־מֵתְךָ֖ קְבֹֽר׃ ['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.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.615/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:GEN:586 # text = אֲדֹנִ֣י שְׁמָעֵ֔נִי אֶרֶץ֩ אַרְבַּ֨ע מֵאֹ֧ת שֶֽׁקֶל־כֶּ֛סֶף בֵּינִ֥י וּבֵֽינְךָ֖ מַה־הִ֑וא וְאֶת־מֵתְךָ֖ קְבֹֽר׃ # verse = GEN.23.15 1-2 אֲדֹנִ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 אֲדֹנ אָדוֹן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 dislocated _ Gloss=my.lord|Ref=GEN_23:15!1|MId=o010230150011|Strong=0113 2 ִ֣י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=GEN_23:15!1|MId=o010230150012|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 3-4 שְׁמָעֵ֔נִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 שְׁמָע שָׁמַע VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=listen|Ref=GEN_23:15!2|MId=o010230150021|Strong=8085|Frame=A0:010230150011;A1:010230150022;|Type=imperative 4 ֵ֔נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ Gloss=to.me|Ref=GEN_23:15!2|MId=o010230150022|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 5 אֶרֶץ֩ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 15 dislocated _ Gloss=land|Ref=GEN_23:15!3|MId=o010230150031|Strong=0776 6 אַרְבַּ֨ע אַרְבַּע NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 8 nummod _ Gloss=of.four|Ref=GEN_23:15!4|MId=o010230150041|Strong=0702|Type=cardinal_number 7 מֵאֹ֧ת מֵאָה NUM _ Number=Plur 6 flat _ Gloss=hundred(s)|Ref=GEN_23:15!5|MId=o010230150051|Strong=3967|Type=cardinal_number 8 שֶֽׁקֶל־ שֶׁקֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=shekel[s]|Ref=GEN_23:15!6|MId=o010230150061|Strong=8255|SpaceAfter=No 9 כֶּ֛סֶף כֶּסֶף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.silver|Ref=GEN_23:15!7|MId=o010230150071|Strong=3701 10-11 בֵּינִ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בֵּינ בֵּין ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=between|Ref=GEN_23:15!8|MId=o010230150081|Strong=0996 11 ִ֥י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=GEN_23:15!8|MId=o010230150082|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 12-14 וּבֵֽינְךָ֖ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_23:15!9|MId=o010230150091|Strong=2050b 13 בֵֽינ בֵּין ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=between|Ref=GEN_23:15!9|MId=o010230150092|Strong=0996 14 ְךָ֖ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 conj _ Gloss=you|Ref=GEN_23:15!9|MId=o010230150093|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 15 מַה־ מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 3 parataxis _ Gloss=what?|Ref=GEN_23:15!10|MId=o010230150101|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative|SpaceAfter=No 16 הִ֑וא הִיא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ Gloss=[is].it|Ref=GEN_23:15!11|MId=o010230150111|Strong=1931a|Type=personal 17-18 וְאֶת־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 21 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_23:15!12|MId=o010230150121|Strong=2050b 18 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=GEN_23:15!12|MId=o010230150122|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 19-20 מֵתְךָ֖ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 מֵת מוּת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 21 obj _ Gloss=dead|Ref=GEN_23:15!13|MId=o010230150131|Strong=4191|Type=participle_active 20 ְךָ֖ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=GEN_23:15!13|MId=o010230150132|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 21 קְבֹֽר קָבַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 3 conj _ Gloss=bury|Ref=GEN_23:15!14|MId=o010230150141|Strong=6912|Frame=A0:010230150011;A1:010230150131;|Type=imperative|SpaceAfter=No 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=GEN_23:15!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | שְׁמָע *listen* | imperative · qal | אֲדֹנ *my lord* | ֵנִי *to me* | | | | קְבֹֽר *bury* | imperative · qal | אֲדֹנ *my lord* | מֵת *dead* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos} רִבּוֹנִי קַבֵּל מִנִּי אַרְעָא שַׁוְיָא אַרְבַּע מְאָה סִלְעִין דִּכְסַף בֵּינָא וּבֵינָךְ מַה הִיא וְיָת מִיתָךְ קְבַר The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. ['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.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.615/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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