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title: Genesis 23:15 (JPS 1917) — 'My lord, hearken unto me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekel… · 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 JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 23:15 · JPS 1917

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'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.'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hearken, be, bury · **To what, where:** that, dead

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This is Genesis 23:15 · 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), 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:615
# text = '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.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	dislocated	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	shekels	shekel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	parataxis	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
23	betwixt	betwixt	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	conj	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
28	bury	bury	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
29	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	dead	dead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto me; My lord *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bury** | infinitive |  | thy dead |  |  |  | therefore *property* | 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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אֲדֹנִ֣י שְׁמָעֵ֔נִי אֶרֶץ֩ אַרְבַּ֨ע מֵאֹ֧ת שֶֽׁקֶל־כֶּ֛סֶף בֵּינִ֥י וּבֵֽינְךָ֖ מַה־הִ֑וא וְאֶת־מֵתְךָ֖ קְבֹֽר׃

[Genesis 23:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.15/)

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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:615` 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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