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title: Genesis 36:2 (JPS 1917) — Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, Who acts: Esau. Genesis 36:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 36:2 · JPS 1917

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Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

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**Who acts:** Esau · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** wives

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This is Genesis 36:2 · 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 (Esau), 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:1121
# text = Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
1	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Adah	Adah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Elon	Elon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Hittite	Hittite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Oholibamah	Oholibamah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Anah	Anah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Zibeon	Zibeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Hivite	Hivite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **take** | past | Esau |  | Esau's wives of the daughters of Canaan |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |

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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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עֵשָׂ֛ו לָקַ֥ח אֶת־נָשָׁ֖יו מִבְּנ֣וֹת כְּנָ֑עַן אֶת־עָדָ֗ה בַּת־אֵילוֹן֙ הַֽחִתִּ֔י וְאֶת־אָהֳלִֽיבָמָה֙ בַּת־עֲנָ֔ה בַּת־צִבְע֖וֹן הַֽחִוִּֽי׃

[Genesis 36:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.2/)

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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:1121` 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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