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title: Genesis 23:6 (JPS 1917) — 'Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.' Who acts: you, thou, none. Genesis 23:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Genesis 23:6 · JPS 1917

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'Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.'

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**Who acts:** you, thou, none · **What happens:** hear, be, bury, withhold · **To what, where:** us, mighty prince, dead, choice, sepulchre, thee

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This is Genesis 23:6 · 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, thou, none), 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:606
# text = 'Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
9	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sepulchres	sepulchre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	bury	bury	VERB	VBP	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	dead	dead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	30	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	withhold	withhold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	obl	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	sepulchre	sepulchre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nsubj	_	_
39	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
41	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	dead	dead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: offer
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=offer, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  | my lord *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | thou | a mighty prince |  |  |  | among us | tree rules |
| 3 | **bury** | present |  | thy dead |  | the choice of our sepulchres |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme in choice=Destination |
| 4 | **withhold** | shall | none | Abraham's sepulchre |  | thee |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bury** | may | thou | thy dead |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme |

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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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שְׁמָעֵ֣נוּ ׀ אֲדֹנִ֗י נְשִׂ֨יא אֱלֹהִ֤ים אַתָּה֙ בְּתוֹכֵ֔נוּ בְּמִבְחַ֣ר קְבָרֵ֔ינוּ קְבֹ֖ר אֶת־מֵתֶ֑ךָ אִ֣ישׁ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ אֶת־קִבְר֛וֹ לֹֽא־יִכְלֶ֥ה מִמְּךָ֖ מִקְּבֹ֥ר מֵתֶֽךָ׃

[Genesis 23:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.6/)

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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:606` 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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