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title: Genesis 23:20 (JPS 1917) — And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abr… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the children of Heth. Who acts: cave, children. Genesis 23:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 23:20 · JPS 1917

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And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the children of Heth.

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**Who acts:** cave, children · **What happens:** be, make, possess · **To what, where:** field, burying place

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This is Genesis 23:20 · 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 (cave, 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:620
# text = And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the children of Heth.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	burying	burying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:agent	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Heth	Heth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the cave |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive | the children of Heth | the field and the cave |  |  |  | unto Abraham; for a possession of a burying place; sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent subject=Product for possession=Asset |
| 3 | **possess** |  |  | a burying place |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיָּ֨קָם הַשָּׂדֶ֜ה וְהַמְּעָרָ֧ה אֲשֶׁר־בּ֛וֹ לְאַבְרָהָ֖ם לַאֲחֻזַּת־קָ֑בֶר מֵאֵ֖ת בְּנֵי־חֵֽת׃ס

[Genesis 23:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.20/)

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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:620` 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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