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title: 1 Kings 6:20 (JPS 1917) — And before the Sanctuary which was twenty cubits in length, and twen… · tree and pragmatics
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# 1 Kings 6:20 · JPS 1917

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And before the Sanctuary which was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof, overlaid with pure gold, he set an altar, which he covered with cedar.

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**Who acts:** Sanctuary, stone · **What happens:** be, overlay, set, cover · **To what, where:** twenty cubits, length, Sanctuary, altar

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This is 1 Kings 6:20 · 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 (Sanctuary, stone), 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:1KI:208
# text = And before the Sanctuary which was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof, overlaid with pure gold, he set an altar, which he covered with cedar.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Sanctuary	Sanctuary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	overlaid	overlay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obj	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Sanctuary and twenty cubits in breadth and twenty cubits in the height | twenty cubits |  | length |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overlay** | participle |  | the Sanctuary and twenty cubits in breadth and twenty cubits in the height *not said here* |  |  |  | with pure gold | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | past | stone | a altar |  |  | before the Sanctuary and twenty cubits in breadth and twenty cubits in the height |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent altar=Theme before sanctuary=Destination |
| 4 | **cover** | past | stone | a altar |  |  |  | with cedar | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Destination with cedar=Theme |

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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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וְלִפְנֵ֣י הַדְּבִ֡יר עֶשְׂרִים֩ אַמָּ֨ה אֹ֜רֶךְ וְעֶשְׂרִ֧ים אַמָּ֣ה רֹ֗חַב וְעֶשְׂרִ֤ים אַמָּה֙ קֽוֹמָת֔וֹ וַיְצַפֵּ֖הוּ זָהָ֣ב סָג֑וּר וַיְצַ֥ף מִזְבֵּ֖חַ אָֽרֶז׃

[1 Kings 6:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.20/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1KI:208` of Mova's parse database.

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