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title: 1 Kings 7:23 (JPS 1917) — And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. Who acts: Solomon, height, line. 1 Kings 7:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 7:23 · JPS 1917

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And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

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**Who acts:** Solomon, height, line · **What happens:** make, be, compass · **To what, where:** molten sea, brim, five cubits, height

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This is 1 Kings 7:23 · 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, height, 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:252
# text = And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	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	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	brim	brim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	brim	brim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	compass	compass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	round	round	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	about	about	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **make** | past | Solomon | the molten sea of ten cubits |  | brim to brim |  | round *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent sea=Product from brim=Material |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the height | five cubits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **compass** | past · do-support | a line of thirty cubits | height |  |  |  | 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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וַיַּ֥עַשׂ אֶת־הַיָּ֖ם מוּצָ֑ק עֶ֣שֶׂר בָּ֠אַמָּה מִשְּׂפָת֨וֹ עַד־שְׂפָת֜וֹ עָגֹ֣ל ׀ סָבִ֗יב וְחָמֵ֤שׁ בָּֽאַמָּה֙ קוֹמָת֔וֹ וְקָו֙ שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה יָסֹ֥ב אֹת֖וֹ סָבִֽיב׃

[1 Kings 7:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.23/)

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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:252` 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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