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title: Exodus 36:15 (JPS 1917) — The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the br… · tree and pragmatics
description: The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain; the eleven curtains had one measure. Who acts: length, breadth, eleven curtains. Exodus 36:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 36:15 · JPS 1917

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The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain; the eleven curtains had one measure.

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**Who acts:** length, breadth, eleven curtains · **What happens:** be, cubit, have · **To what, where:** thirty cubits, one measure

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This is Exodus 36:15 · 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, breadth, eleven 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:1097
# text = The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain; the eleven curtains had one measure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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	8	cop	_	_
7	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
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	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | thirty cubits and four cubits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cubit** |  | the breadth of each curtain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | the eleven 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 הָאַחַ֗ת שְׁלֹשִׁים֙ בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה וְאַרְבַּ֣ע אַמּ֔וֹת רֹ֖חַב הַיְרִיעָ֣ה הָאֶחָ֑ת מִדָּ֣ה אַחַ֔ת לְעַשְׁתֵּ֥י עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה יְרִיעֹֽת׃

[Exodus 36:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.15/)

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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:1097` 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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