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title: Exodus 39:30 — And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote up… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: HOLY TO THE LORD. Who acts: colours. Exodus 39:30 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 39:30 שְׁמוֹת

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**Who acts:** colours · **What happens:** make, write, crown · **To what, where:** plate, writing, pure gold

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This is Exodus 39:30 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 — colours — and what happens in the verse to plate, writing, pure gold, 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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וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֛וּ אֶת־צִ֥יץ נֵֽזֶר־הַקֹּ֖דֶשׁ זָהָ֣ב טָה֑וֹר וַיִּכְתְּב֣וּ עָלָ֗יו מִכְתַּב֙ פִּתּוּחֵ֣י חוֹתָ֔ם קֹ֖דֶשׁ לַיהוָֽה׃

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[And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: HOLY TO THE LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1213/)

## 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:1161
# text = וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֛וּ אֶת־צִ֥יץ נֵֽזֶר־הַקֹּ֖דֶשׁ זָהָ֣ב טָה֑וֹר וַיִּכְתְּב֣וּ עָלָ֗יו מִכְתַּב֙ פִּתּוּחֵ֣י חוֹתָ֔ם קֹ֖דֶשׁ לַיהוָֽה׃
# verse = EXO.39.30
1-2	וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֛וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_39:30!1|MId=o020390300011|Strong=2050b
2	יַּעֲשׂ֛וּ	עָשָׂה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.made|Ref=EXO_39:30!1|MId=o020390300012|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:020380220012;020380230021;020360080031;A1:020390300031;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=EXO_39:30!2|MId=o020390300021|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
4	צִ֥יץ	צִיץ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Gloss=the.plate|Ref=EXO_39:30!3|MId=o020390300031|Strong=6731
5	נֵֽזֶר־	נֵזֶר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.the.crown|Ref=EXO_39:30!4|MId=o020390300041|Strong=5145|SpaceAfter=No
6-7	הַקֹּ֖דֶשׁ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	7	det	_	Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=EXO_39:30!5|MId=o020390300051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
7	קֹּ֖דֶשׁ	קֹדֶשׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=holiness|Ref=EXO_39:30!5|MId=o020390300052|Strong=6944
8	זָהָ֣ב	זָהָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=gold|Ref=EXO_39:30!6|MId=o020390300061|Strong=2091
9	טָה֑וֹר	טָהֹר	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	amod	_	Gloss=pure|Ref=EXO_39:30!7|MId=o020390300071|Strong=2889|Type=adjective
10-11	וַיִּכְתְּב֣וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	11	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_39:30!8|MId=o020390300081|Strong=2050b
11	יִּכְתְּב֣וּ	כָּתַב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=they.inscribed|Ref=EXO_39:30!8|MId=o020390300082|Strong=3789|Frame=A0:020380220012;020380230021;020360080031;A1:020390300101;|Type=wayyiqtol
12-13	עָלָ֗יו	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	עָלָ֗י	עַל	ADP	_	_	13	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=EXO_39:30!9|MId=o020390300091|Strong=5921
13	ו	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	Gloss=it|Ref=EXO_39:30!9|MId=o020390300092|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
14	מִכְתַּב֙	מִכְתָּב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	obj	_	Gloss=an.inscription|Ref=EXO_39:30!10|MId=o020390300101|Strong=4385
15	פִּתּוּחֵ֣י	פִּתּוּחַ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	14	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.[the].engravings|Ref=EXO_39:30!11|MId=o020390300111|Strong=6603
16	חוֹתָ֔ם	חֹותָם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.a.seal|Ref=EXO_39:30!12|MId=o020390300121|Strong=2368
17	קֹ֖דֶשׁ	קֹדֶשׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	14	appos	_	Gloss=holiness|Ref=EXO_39:30!13|MId=o020390300131|Strong=6944
18-19	לַיהוָֽה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=EXO_39:30!14|MId=o020390300141|Strong=3807a
19	יהוָֽה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	17	nmod	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=EXO_39:30!14|MId=o020390300142|Strong=3068
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	19	punct	_	Ref=EXO_39:30!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יַּעֲשׂוּ *they made* | wayyiqtol · qal |  | צִיץ *the plate* |  |  |
| יִּכְתְּבוּ *they inscribed* | wayyiqtol · qal |  | מִכְתַּב *an inscription* |  |  |

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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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וַעֲבָדוּ יָת צִיצָא כְלִילָא דְקוּדְשָׁא דְהַב דְכֵי וּכְתָבוּ עֲלוֹהִי גְלִיפָן כְּתַב מְפָרַשׁ קֹדֶשׁ לַיְיָ:

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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. [And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: HOLY TO THE LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1213/)

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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:1161`.

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