--- title: Genesis 36:8 (JPS 1917) — And Esau dwelt in the mountain-land of Seir — Esau is Edom. · tree and pragmatics description: And Esau dwelt in the mountain-land of Seir — Esau is Edom. Who acts: Esau. Genesis 36:8 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.1128/) [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/) / [36:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.8/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 36:8 · JPS 1917 And Esau dwelt in the mountain-land of Seir — Esau is Edom. **Who acts:** Esau · **What happens:** dwell, be · **To what, where:** mountain land, Edom This is Genesis 36:8 · 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:1128 # text = And Esau dwelt in the mountain-land of Seir — Esau is Edom. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Seir Seir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 Edom Edom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 15 . . 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 | **dwell** | past | Esau | | | the mountain land of Seir | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | Esau | Edom | | | | | tree rules | 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} וַיֵּ֤שֶׁב עֵשָׂו֙ בְּהַ֣ר שֵׂעִ֔יר עֵשָׂ֖ו ה֥וּא אֱדֽוֹם׃ [Genesis 36:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1128` 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 36:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1127/) - next →: [Genesis 36:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1129/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 36:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.8/)