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title: Genesis 36:39 (JPS 1917) — And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stea… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead; and the name of the city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab. Who acts: Baal, Hadar, name, wife. Genesis 36:39 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Genesis 36:39 · JPS 1917

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And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead; and the name of the city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

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**Who acts:** Baal, Hadar, name, wife · **What happens:** die, reign, be, name · **To what, where:** stead, Pau, Mehetabel, city

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This is Genesis 36:39 · 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 (Baal, Hadar, name, wife), 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:1168
# text = And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead; and the name of the city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	Baal	Baal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hanan	Hanan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Achbor	Achbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Hadar	Hadar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	Mehetabel	Mehetabel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Matred	Matred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Me	Me	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	_
45	zahab	Zahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	flat	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Baal |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **reign** | past | Hadar |  |  | Baal's stead |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the name of the city | Pau |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Baal's wife's name | Mehetabel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | the city |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **name** |  | Baal's wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַיָּמָת֮ בַּ֣עַל חָנָ֣ן בַּ֣עַל חָנָ֣ן בֶּן־עַכְבּוֹר֒ וַיִּמְלֹ֤ךְ תַּחְתָּיו֙ הֲדַ֔ר וְשֵׁ֥ם עִיר֖וֹ פָּ֑עוּ וְשֵׁ֨ם אִשְׁתּ֤וֹ מְהֵֽיטַבְאֵל֙ בַּת־מַטְרֵ֔ד בַּ֖ת מֵ֥י זָהָֽב מֵ֥י זָהָֽב׃

[Genesis 36:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.39/)

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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:1168` of Mova's parse database.

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