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title: Exodus 30:2 — A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it. Who acts: cubit, two cubits, horns. Exodus 30:2 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and 
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# Exodus 30:2 שְׁמוֹת

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**Who acts:** cubit, two cubits, horns · **What happens:** be, breadth · **To what, where:** length, height

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This is Exodus 30:2 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — cubit, two cubits, horns — and what happens in the verse to length, height, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 40 chapters of Exodus on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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אַמָּ֨ה אָרְכּ֜וֹ וְאַמָּ֤ה רָחְבּוֹ֙ רָב֣וּעַ יִהְיֶ֔ה וְאַמָּתַ֖יִם קֹמָת֑וֹ מִמֶּ֖נּוּ קַרְנֹתָֽיו׃

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[A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.890/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:EXO:851
# text = אַמָּ֨ה אָרְכּ֜וֹ וְאַמָּ֤ה רָחְבּוֹ֙ רָב֣וּעַ יִהְיֶ֔ה וְאַמָּתַ֖יִם קֹמָת֑וֹ מִמֶּ֖נּוּ קַרְנֹתָֽיו׃
# verse = EXO.30.2
1	אַמָּ֨ה	אַמָּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	0	root	_	Gloss=[will.be].a.cubit|Ref=EXO_30:2!1|MId=o020300020011|Strong=0520
2-3	אָרְכּ֜וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
2	אָרְכּ	אֹרֶךְ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	Gloss=length|Ref=EXO_30:2!2|MId=o020300020021|Strong=0753
3	֜וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=its|Ref=EXO_30:2!2|MId=o020300020022|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
4-5	וְאַמָּ֤ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	5	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_30:2!3|MId=o020300020031|Strong=2050b
5	אַמָּ֤ה	אַמָּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Gloss=[will.be].a.cubit|Ref=EXO_30:2!3|MId=o020300020032|Strong=0520
6-7	רָחְבּוֹ֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	רָחְבּ	רֹחַב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Gloss=breadth|Ref=EXO_30:2!4|MId=o020300020041|Strong=7341
7	וֹ֙	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=its|Ref=EXO_30:2!4|MId=o020300020042|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
8	רָב֣וּעַ	רָבַע	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	Gloss=square|Ref=EXO_30:2!5|MId=o020300020051|Strong=7251|Frame=A0:020300010021;|Type=participle_passive
9	יִהְיֶ֔ה	הָיָה	AUX	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	8	cop	_	Gloss=it.will.be|Ref=EXO_30:2!6|MId=o020300020061|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:020300010021;|Type=yiqtol
10-11	וְאַמָּתַ֖יִם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	11	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_30:2!7|MId=o020300020071|Strong=2050b
11	אַמָּתַ֖יִם	אַמָּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Dual	1	conj	_	Gloss=[will.be].two.cubits|Ref=EXO_30:2!7|MId=o020300020072|Strong=0520
12-13	קֹמָת֑וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	קֹמָת	קוֹמָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Gloss=height|Ref=EXO_30:2!8|MId=o020300020081|Strong=6967
13	֑וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=its|Ref=EXO_30:2!8|MId=o020300020082|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
14-15	מִמֶּ֖נּוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	מִמּ	מִן	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=[will|Ref=EXO_30:2!9|MId=o020300020091|Strong=4480
15	ֶ֖נּוּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	parataxis	_	Gloss=be].from.it|Ref=EXO_30:2!9|MId=o020300020092|Strong=5105b|Type=pronominal
16-17	קַרְנֹתָֽיו	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	קַרְנֹתָֽי	קֶרֶן	NOUN	_	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	Gloss=horns|Ref=EXO_30:2!10|MId=o020300020101|Strong=7161
17	ו	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=its|Ref=EXO_30:2!10|MId=o020300020102|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
18	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	17	punct	_	Ref=EXO_30:2!10
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| רָבוּעַ *square* | participle passive · qal |  |  |  |  |
| יִהְיֶה *it will be* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos}

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אַמְתָא אֻרְכֵּהּ וְאַמְתָא פְתָיֵהּ מְרַבַּע יְהֵי וְתַרְתֵּין אַמִין רוּמֵהּ מִנֵהּ קַרְנוֹהִי:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.890/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:EXO:851`.

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