--- title: Genesis 36:13 (JPS 1917) — These were the sons of Basemath Esau's wife. · tree and pragmatics description: These were the sons of Basemath Esau's wife. Who acts: These. Genesis 36:13 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.1135/) [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/) / [36:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.13/) / JPS 2 # Genesis 36:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 These were the sons of Basemath Esau's wife. **Who acts:** These · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sons This is Genesis 36:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (These), 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:1135 # text = These were the sons of Basemath Esau's wife. 1 These this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 Basemath Basemath PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is a** | past | These | the sons | | | | | 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} וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ בְּנֵ֣י רְעוּאֵ֔ל נַ֥חַת וָזֶ֖רַח שַׁמָּ֣ה וּמִזָּ֑ה אֵ֣לֶּ֣ההָי֔וּ בְּנֵ֥י בָשְׂמַ֖ת אֵ֥שֶׁת עֵשָֽׂו׃ [Genesis 36:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.13/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1134/) 2. **These were the sons of Basemath Esau's wife.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1135` 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 36:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1134/) - next →: [Genesis 36:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1136/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 36:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.13/)