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title: Exodus 36:9 (JPS 1917) — The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the brea… · tree and pragmatics
description: The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had one measure. Who acts: length, curtains. Exodus 36:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 36:9 · JPS 1917

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The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had one measure.

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**Who acts:** length, curtains · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** eight cubits, one measure

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This is Exodus 36:9 · 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 (length, curtains), 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:EXO:1091
# text = The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had one measure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
10	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | past | the length of each curtain | eight cubits and the breadth of each curtain  four cubits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | all curtains | one measure |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient |

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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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אֹ֜רֶךְ הַיְרִיעָ֣ה הָֽאַחַ֗ת שְׁמֹנֶ֤ה וְעֶשְׂרִים֙ בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה וְרֹ֙חַב֙ אַרְבַּ֣ע בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה הַיְרִיעָ֖ה הָאֶחָ֑ת מִדָּ֥ה אַחַ֖ת לְכָל־הַיְרִיעֹֽת׃

[Exodus 36:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.9/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1091` 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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