Genesis 36:6 · JPS 1917
And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan; and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
Who acts: Esau · What happens: take, gather, go, possess · To what, where: wives, possessions, land
This is Genesis 36:6 · 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | Esau | Esau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wives | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sons | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sons | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sons | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wives | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 daughters | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 daughters | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wives | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 souls | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 souls | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 souls | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 souls | det |
| 18 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wives | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 souls | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cattle | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cattle | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 25 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wives | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 beasts | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 beasts | cc |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 beasts | det:predet |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 30 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wives | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 possessions | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 possessions | cc |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 possessions | det:predet |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 possessions | nmod:poss |
| 35 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wives | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 gathered | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 gathered | obj |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 gathered | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 gathered | aux |
| 40 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 possessions | acl:relcl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 land | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 land | det |
| 43 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gathered | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Canaan | case |
| 45 | Canaan | Canaan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 land | nmod |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 went | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 went | cc |
| 48 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 49 | into | into | ADP | _ | 51 land | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 land | det |
| 51 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 went | obl |
| 52 | away | away | ADV | _ | 48 went | advmod |
| 53 | from | from | ADP | _ | 55 brother | case |
| 54 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 brother | nmod:poss |
| 55 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 went | obl |
| 56 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 brother | appos |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Esau | Esau's wives and Esau's sons and Esau's daughters and all souls of Esau's house and Esau's cattle and Esau's beasts and Esau's possessions | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||||
| 2 | gather | past · perfect | Esau | Esau's possessions | the land of Canaan | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | Esau not said here | a land | from Esau's brother; away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location from brother=Destination | |||
| 4 | possess | Esau | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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
וַיִּקַּ֣ח עֵשָׂ֡ו אֶת־נָ֠שָׁיו וְאֶת־בָּנָ֣יו וְאֶת־בְּנֹתָיו֮ וְאֶת־כָּל־נַפְשׁ֣וֹת בֵּיתוֹ֒ וְאֶת־מִקְנֵ֣הוּ וְאֶת־כָּל־בְּהֶמְתּ֗וֹ וְאֵת֙ כָּל־קִנְיָנ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר רָכַ֖שׁ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ אֶל־אֶ֔רֶץ מִפְּנֵ֖י יַעֲקֹ֥ב אָחִֽיו׃
Genesis 36:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1126 of Mova's parse database.
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