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title: Genesis 36:17 (JPS 1917) — And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son: the chief of Nahath, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son: the chief of Nahath, the chief of Zerah, the chief of Shammah, the chief of Mizzah. Who acts: these. Genesis 36:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 36:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son: the chief of Nahath, the chief of Zerah, the chief of Shammah, the chief of Mizzah.

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**Who acts:** these · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sons

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This is Genesis 36:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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:1141
# text = And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son: the chief of Nahath, the chief of Zerah, the chief of Shammah, the chief of Mizzah.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	Reuel	Reuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Nahath	Nahath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Zerah	Zerah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Shammah	Shammah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Mizzah	Mizzah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | these | the sons |  |  |  | of Reuel's son | 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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וְאֵ֗לֶּה בְּנֵ֤י רְעוּאֵל֙ בֶּן־עֵשָׂ֔ו אַלּ֥וּף נַ֙חַת֙ אַלּ֣וּף זֶ֔רַח אַלּ֥וּף שַׁמָּ֖ה אַלּ֣וּף מִזָּ֑ה אֵ֣לֶּה אַלּוּפֵ֤י רְעוּאֵל֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ אֱד֔וֹם אֵ֕לֶּה בְּנֵ֥י בָשְׂמַ֖ת אֵ֥שֶׁת עֵשָֽׂו׃

[Genesis 36:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son: the chief of Nahath, the chief of Zerah, the chief of Shammah, the chief of Mizzah.**
2. [These are the chiefs that came of Reuel in the land of Edom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1142/)
3. [These are the sons of Basemath Esau's wife.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1143/)

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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:1141` 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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