--- title: Jeremiah 52:21 (JPS 1917) — And as for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cu… · tree and pragmatics description: And as for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers; it was hollow. Who acts: height, line, thickness. 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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 (height, line, thickness), 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:JER:1465 # text = And as for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers; it was hollow. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 2 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 pillar pillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 cubits cubit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 cubits cubit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 compass compass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 thickness thickness NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 15 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** | past | the height of the one pillar | eighteen cubits and four fingers | | | | as the pillars | tree rules | | 2 | **compass** | past · do-support | a line of twelve cubits | height | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | the thickness | four fingers | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | thickness | | | | | hollow *property* | 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} וְהָעַמּוּדִ֗ים שְׁמֹנֶ֨ה עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה אַמָּה֙ קוֹמַת֙ הָעַמֻּ֣ד הָאֶחָ֔ד וְח֛וּט שְׁתֵּים־עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה אַמָּ֖ה יְסֻבֶּ֑נּוּ וְעָבְי֛וֹ אַרְבַּ֥ע אַצְבָּע֖וֹת נָבֽוּב׃ [Jeremiah 52:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1465` 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: [Jeremiah 52:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1464/) - next →: [Jeremiah 52:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1466/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 52:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.21/)