--- title: Exodus 38:1 (JPS 1917) — And he made the altar of burnt-offering of acacia-wood: five cubits… · tree and pragmatics description: And he made the altar of burnt-offering of acacia-wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof, four-square, and three cubits the height thereof. Who acts: he, five cubits. 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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 (he, five cubits), 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:1153 # text = And he made the altar of burnt-offering of acacia-wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof, four-square, and three cubits the height thereof. 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 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 burnt burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 acacia acacia NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 cubits cubit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 20 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 cubits cubit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 breadth breadth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:unmarked _ _ 27 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 cubits cubit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 38 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | he | the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Product | | 2 | **burn** | participle | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | five cubits | the length and five cubits the breadth and four square and three cubits | | | | thereof *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **offer** | | | acacia wood | | | | | nom offering «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיַּ֛עַשׂ אֶת־מִזְבַּ֥ח הָעֹלָ֖ה עֲצֵ֣י שִׁטִּ֑ים חָמֵשׁ֩ אַמּ֨וֹת אָרְכּ֜וֹ וְחָֽמֵשׁ־אַמּ֤וֹת רָחְבּוֹ֙ רָב֔וּעַ וְשָׁלֹ֥שׁ אַמּ֖וֹת קֹמָתֽוֹ׃ [Exodus 38:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1153` 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. - ← previous: [Exodus 37:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1152/) - next →: [Exodus 38:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1154/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 38:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.1/)