--- title: Genesis 36:43 (JPS 1917) — This is Esau the father of the Edomites. · tree and pragmatics description: This is Esau the father of the Edomites. Who acts: This. Genesis 36:43 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.1174/) [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/) / [36:43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.43/) / JPS 3 # Genesis 36:43 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 This is Esau the father of the Edomites. **Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Esau This is Genesis 36:43 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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 (This), 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:1174 # text = This is Esau the father of the Edomites. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Edomites Edomite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 . . 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 | **is a** | present | This | Esau | | | | | 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} אַלּ֥וּף מַגְדִּיאֵ֖ל אַלּ֣וּף עִירָ֑ם אֵ֣לֶּה ׀ אַלּוּפֵ֣י אֱד֗וֹם לְמֹֽשְׁבֹתָם֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ אֲחֻזָּתָ֔ם ה֥וּא עֵשָׂ֖ו אֲבִ֥י אֱדֽוֹם׃פ [Genesis 36:43: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.43/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [the chief of Magdiel, the chief of Iram.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1172/) 2. [These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1173/) 3. **This is Esau the father of the Edomites.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1174` 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 36:43 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1173/) - next →: [Genesis 37:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1175/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 36:43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.43/)