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title: Genesis 23:2 (JPS 1917) — And Sarah died in Kiriatharba — the same is Hebron — in the land of… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Sarah died in Kiriatharba — the same is Hebron — in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Who acts: Sarah, same, Abraham. Genesis 23:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 23:2 · JPS 1917

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And Sarah died in Kiriatharba — the same is Hebron — in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

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**Who acts:** Sarah, same, Abraham · **What happens:** die, be, come, mourn, weep · **To what, where:** Hebron

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This is Genesis 23:2 · 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 (Sarah, same, Abraham), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:GEN:602
# text = And Sarah died in Kiriatharba — the same is Hebron — in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Sarah	Sarah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kiriatharba	Kiriatharba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	Hebron	Hebron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Sarah	Sarah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Sarah |  |  |  |  | in the land of Canaan; in Kiriatharba | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in kiriatharba=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the same | Hebron |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | Abraham |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mourn** | to-infinitive | Abraham *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Sarah | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for sarah=Attribute |
| 5 | **weep** | to-infinitive | Abraham *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Sarah | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#hebrew}

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וַתָּ֣מָת שָׂרָ֗ה בְּקִרְיַ֥ת אַרְבַּ֛ע קִרְיַ֥ת אַרְבַּ֛ע הִ֥וא חֶבְר֖וֹן בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן וַיָּבֹא֙ אַבְרָהָ֔ם לִסְפֹּ֥ד לְשָׂרָ֖ה וְלִבְכֹּתָֽהּ׃

[Genesis 23:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:602` 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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