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title: 1 Kings 7:15 (JPS 1917) — Thus he fashioned the two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus he fashioned the two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high each; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it about; and so the other pillar. Who acts: Solomon, line. 1 Kings 7:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 7:15 · JPS 1917

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Thus he fashioned the two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high each; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it about; and so the other pillar.

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**Who acts:** Solomon, line · **What happens:** fashioned, compass · **To what, where:** two pillars, work

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This is 1 Kings 7:15 · 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 (Solomon, line), 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:244
# text = Thus he fashioned the two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high each; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it about; and so the other pillar.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fashioned	fashioned	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	compass	compass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **fashioned** | past | Solomon | the two pillars of brass |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **compass** | past · do-support | a line of twelve cubits | work |  |  |  | about *property* | 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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וַיָּ֛צַר אֶת־שְׁנֵ֥י הָעַמּוּדִ֖ים נְחֹ֑שֶׁת שְׁמֹנֶ֨ה עֶשְׂרֵ֜ה אַמָּ֗ה קוֹמַת֙ הָעַמּ֣וּד הָאֶחָ֔ד וְחוּט֙ שְׁתֵּים־עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה אַמָּ֔ה יָסֹ֖ב אֶת־הָעַמּ֥וּד הַשֵּׁנִֽי׃

[1 Kings 7:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.15/)

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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:244` 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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