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title: Exodus 37:14 (JPS 1917) — Close by the border were the rings, the holders for the staves to be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Close by the border were the rings, the holders for the staves to bear the table. Who acts: rings. Exodus 37:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 37:14 · JPS 1917

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Close by the border were the rings, the holders for the staves to bear the table.

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**Who acts:** rings · **What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** table

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This is Exodus 37:14 · 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 (rings), 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:1136
# text = Close by the border were the rings, the holders for the staves to bear the table.
1	Close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	holders	holder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	staves	stave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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** | past | the rings |  |  |  |  | by the border; close *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive | the rings *not said here* | the table |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=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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לְעֻמַּת֙ הַמִּסְגֶּ֔רֶת הָי֖וּ הַטַּבָּעֹ֑ת בָּתִּים֙ לַבַּדִּ֔ים לָשֵׂ֖את אֶת־הַשֻּׁלְחָֽן׃

[Exodus 37:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.37.14/)

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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:1136` 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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