--- title: Genesis 36:4 (JPS 1917) — And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel; · tree and pragmatics description: And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel; Who acts: Adah, Basemath. Genesis 36:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1123/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/36/) / [36:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.4/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 36:4 · JPS 1917 And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel; **Who acts:** Adah, Basemath · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** Eliphaz, Esau, Reuel This is Genesis 36:4 · 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 (Adah, Basemath), 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:1123 # text = And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Adah Adah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 Eliphaz Eliphaz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 Basemath Basemath PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 Reuel Reuel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; 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 | **bear** | past | Adah | Eliphaz | Esau | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eliphaz=Patient | | 2 | **bear** | past | Basemath | Reuel | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reuel=Patient | 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} וַתֵּ֧לֶד עָדָ֛ה לְעֵשָׂ֖ו אֶת־אֱלִיפָ֑ז וּבָ֣שְׂמַ֔ת יָלְדָ֖ה אֶת־רְעוּאֵֽל׃ [Genesis 36:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1123` 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 36:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1122/) - next →: [Genesis 36:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1124/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 36:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.4/)