--- title: Genesis 23:8 (JPS 1917) — And he spoke with them, saying: 'If it be your mind that I should bu… · tree and pragmatics description: And he spoke with them, saying: 'If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, Who acts: Abraham, I, my. 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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, I, my), 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:608 # text = And he spoke with them, saying: 'If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 10 If if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 expl _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 advcl _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 csubj _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 dead dead NOUN NN Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 out out ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 26 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 entreat entreat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Ephron Ephron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Zohar Zohar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Abraham | | | | | with children *= child* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Abraham *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | | your mind | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bury** | should | I | my dead | | my sight | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme out sight=Destination | | 5 | **hear** | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 6 | **entreat** | infinitive | | | Ephron | | | for me | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sight** | | my | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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 {#hebrew} וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר אִתָּ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר אִם־יֵ֣שׁ אֶֽת־נַפְשְׁכֶ֗ם לִקְבֹּ֤ר אֶת־מֵתִי֙ מִלְּפָנַ֔י שְׁמָע֕וּנִי וּפִגְעוּ־לִ֖י בְּעֶפְר֥וֹן בֶּן־צֹֽחַר׃ [Genesis 23:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:608` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 23:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.607/) - next →: [Genesis 23:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.609/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 23:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.8/)