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title: Exodus 36:20 (JPS 1917) — And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up. · tree and pragmatics
description: And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up. Who acts: breadth. Exodus 36:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 36:20 · JPS 1917

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And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up.

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**Who acts:** breadth · **What happens:** make, stand up · **To what, where:** boards

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This is Exodus 36:20 · 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 (breadth), 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:1102
# text = And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	acacia	acacia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **make** | past | breadth | the boards of acacia wood |  |  |  | for the tabernacle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent board=Product for tabernacle=Asset |
| 2 | **stand up** | gerund | breadth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַיַּ֥עַשׂ אֶת־הַקְּרָשִׁ֖ים לַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן עֲצֵ֥י שִׁטִּ֖ים עֹמְדִֽים׃

[Exodus 36:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.20/)

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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:1102` 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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