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title: Genesis 25:9 (JPS 1917) — And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre; Who acts: Isaac, field. Genesis 25:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 25:9 · JPS 1917

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And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

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**Who acts:** Isaac, field · **What happens:** bury, be · **To what, where:** Keturah, cave

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This is Genesis 25:9 · 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 (Isaac, field), 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:705
# text = And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Ishmael	Ishmael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
7	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Machpelah	Machpelah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Ephron	Ephron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Zohar	Zohar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Hittite	Hittite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Mamre	Mamre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	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 | **bury** | past | Isaac and Isaac's Ishmael | Keturah |  | the cave of Machpelah |  | in the field of Ephron | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cave=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present | the field of Ephron |  |  |  | before Mamre |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיִּקְבְּר֨וּ אֹת֜וֹ יִצְחָ֤ק וְיִשְׁמָעֵאל֙ בָּנָ֔יו אֶל־מְעָרַ֖ת הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֑ה אֶל־שְׂדֵ֞ה עֶפְרֹ֤ן בֶּן־צֹ֙חַר֙ הַֽחִתִּ֔י אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י מַמְרֵֽא׃

[Genesis 25:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.9/)

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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:705` 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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