--- title: Genesis 23:16 (JPS 1917) — And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the… · tree and pragmatics description: And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. Who acts: Abraham, children. 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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, children), 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:616 # text = And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hearkened hearken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Ephron Ephron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 weighed weigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Ephron Ephron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Heth Heth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 shekels shekel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 appos _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 current current ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hearken** | past | Abraham | | | | | unto Ephron | tree rules | | 2 | **weigh** | past | Abraham | the silver | Ephron | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme silver=Value | | 3 | **name** | past · perfect | Abraham | the silver | | the hearing of the children of Heth | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | | the children of Heth | | | | | | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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} וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע אַבְרָהָם֮ אֶל־עֶפְרוֹן֒ וַיִּשְׁקֹ֤ל אַבְרָהָם֙ לְעֶפְרֹ֔ן אֶת־הַכֶּ֕סֶף אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבֶּ֖ר בְּאָזְנֵ֣י בְנֵי־חֵ֑ת אַרְבַּ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ שֶׁ֣קֶל כֶּ֔סֶף עֹבֵ֖ר לַסֹּחֵֽר׃ [Genesis 23:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:616` 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 23:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.615/) - next →: [Genesis 23:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.617/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 23:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.16/)