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title: Exodus 37:12 (JPS 1917) — And he made unto it a border of a hand-breadth round about, and made… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he made unto it a border of a hand-breadth round about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round about. Who acts: Bezalel. Exodus 37:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 37:12 · JPS 1917

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And he made unto it a border of a hand-breadth round about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round about.

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**Who acts:** Bezalel · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** border, golden crown

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This is Exodus 37:12 · 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 (Bezalel), 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:1134
# text = And he made unto it a border of a hand-breadth round about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
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|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	round	round	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | past | Bezalel | a border of a hand breadth |  |  |  | unto table; about *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Product |
| 2 | **make** | past | Bezalel *not said here* | a golden crown |  |  |  | to the border; about *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crown=Product |

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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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וַיַּ֨עַשׂ ל֥וֹ מִסְגֶּ֛רֶת טֹ֖פַח סָבִ֑יב וַיַּ֧עַשׂ זֵר־זָהָ֛ב לְמִסְגַּרְתּ֖וֹ סָבִֽיב׃

[Exodus 37:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.37.12/)

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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:1134` 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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