--- title: Exodus 37:1 — And Bezalel made the ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half was t… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Bezalel made the ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it. Who acts: Bezalel, two cubits. 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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 — Bezalel, two cubits — and what happens in the verse to ark, length, 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. וַיַּ֧עַשׂ בְּצַלְאֵ֛ל אֶת־הָאָרֹ֖ן עֲצֵ֣י שִׁטִּ֑ים אַמָּתַ֨יִם וָחֵ֜צִי אָרְכּ֗וֹ וְאַמָּ֤ה וָחֵ֙צִי֙ רָחְבּ֔וֹ וְאַמָּ֥ה וָחֵ֖צִי קֹמָתֽוֹ׃ [And Bezalel made the ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1123/) ## The tree {#tree} 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:1072 # text = וַיַּ֧עַשׂ בְּצַלְאֵ֛ל אֶת־הָאָרֹ֖ן עֲצֵ֣י שִׁטִּ֑ים אַמָּתַ֨יִם וָחֵ֜צִי אָרְכּ֗וֹ וְאַמָּ֤ה וָחֵ֙צִי֙ רָחְבּ֔וֹ וְאַמָּ֥ה וָחֵ֖צִי קֹמָתֽוֹ׃ # verse = EXO.37.1 1-2 וַיַּ֧עַשׂ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_37:1!1|MId=o020370010011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּ֧עַשׂ עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.made|Ref=EXO_37:1!1|MId=o020370010012|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:020370010021;A1:020370010042;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 בְּצַלְאֵ֛ל בְּצַלְאֵל PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Bezalel|Ref=EXO_37:1!2|MId=o020370010021|Strong=1212 4 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=EXO_37:1!3|MId=o020370010031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 5-6 הָאָרֹ֖ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 6 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=EXO_37:1!4|MId=o020370010041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 6 אָרֹ֖ן אֲרוֹן NOUN _ Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=ark|Ref=EXO_37:1!4|MId=o020370010042|Strong=0727 7 עֲצֵ֣י עֵץ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obl _ Gloss=wood(s)|Ref=EXO_37:1!5|MId=o020370010051|Strong=6086 8 שִׁטִּ֑ים שִׁטָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.acacia|Ref=EXO_37:1!6|MId=o020370010061|Strong=7848 9 אַמָּתַ֨יִם אַמָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Dual 2 parataxis _ Gloss=[was].two.cubits|Ref=EXO_37:1!7|MId=o020370010071|Strong=0520 10-11 וָחֵ֜צִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_37:1!8|MId=o020370010081|Strong=2050b 11 חֵ֜צִי חֲצִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 conj _ Gloss=a.half|Ref=EXO_37:1!8|MId=o020370010082|Strong=2677 12-13 אָרְכּ֗וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 אָרְכּ אֹרֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Gloss=length|Ref=EXO_37:1!9|MId=o020370010091|Strong=0753 13 ֗וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=its|Ref=EXO_37:1!9|MId=o020370010092|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 14-15 וְאַמָּ֤ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and.[was]|Ref=EXO_37:1!10|MId=o020370010101|Strong=2050b 15 אַמָּ֤ה אַמָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 conj _ Gloss=a.cubit|Ref=EXO_37:1!10|MId=o020370010102|Strong=0520 16-17 וָחֵ֙צִי֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 17 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_37:1!11|MId=o020370010111|Strong=2050b 17 חֵ֙צִי֙ חֲצִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 conj _ Gloss=a.half|Ref=EXO_37:1!11|MId=o020370010112|Strong=2677 18-19 רָחְבּ֔וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 רָחְבּ רֹחַב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Gloss=breadth|Ref=EXO_37:1!12|MId=o020370010121|Strong=7341 19 ֔וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ Gloss=its|Ref=EXO_37:1!12|MId=o020370010122|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 20-21 וְאַמָּ֥ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 21 cc _ Gloss=and.[was]|Ref=EXO_37:1!13|MId=o020370010131|Strong=2050b 21 אַמָּ֥ה אַמָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 conj _ Gloss=a.cubit|Ref=EXO_37:1!13|MId=o020370010132|Strong=0520 22-23 וָחֵ֖צִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 23 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_37:1!14|MId=o020370010141|Strong=2050b 23 חֵ֖צִי חֲצִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 21 conj _ Gloss=a.half|Ref=EXO_37:1!14|MId=o020370010142|Strong=2677 24-25 קֹמָתֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24 קֹמָת קוֹמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Gloss=height|Ref=EXO_37:1!15|MId=o020370010151|Strong=6967 25 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ Gloss=its|Ref=EXO_37:1!15|MId=o020370010152|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 26 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 25 punct _ Ref=EXO_37:1!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּעַשׂ *he made* | wayyiqtol · qal | בְּצַלְאֵל *Bezalel* | אָרֹן *ark* | | | 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} וַעֲבַד בְּצַלְאֵל יָת אֲרוֹנָא דְאָעֵי שִׁטִין תַּרְתֵּין אַמִין וּפַלְגָא אֻרְכֵּהּ וְאַמְתָא וּפַלְגָא פְתָיֵהּ וְאַמְתָא וּפַלְגָא רוּמֵהּ: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} 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. 1. [And Bezalel made the ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1123/) **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:1072`. - ← previous: [Exodus 36:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.38/) - next →: [Exodus 37:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.37.2/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/37/)