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title: Exodus 38:9 (JPS 1917) — And he made the court; for the south side southward the hangings of… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he made the court; for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits. Who acts: he, hangings. Exodus 38:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 38:9 · JPS 1917

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And he made the court; for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits.

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**Who acts:** he, hangings · **What happens:** make, twine, be · **To what, where:** court

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This is Exodus 38:9 · 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 (he, hangings), 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:1161
# text = And he made the court; for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits.
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	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
11	southward	southward	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hangings	hanging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	twined	twine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
26	.	.	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 | he | the court |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Product |
| 2 | **twine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the hangings of the court |  |  |  |  | of fine twined linen; the south side *obl* | tree rules |

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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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וַיַּ֖עַשׂ אֶת־הֶחָצֵ֑ר לִפְאַ֣ת ׀ נֶ֣גֶב תֵּימָ֗נָה קַלְעֵ֤י הֶֽחָצֵר֙ שֵׁ֣שׁ מָשְׁזָ֔ר מֵאָ֖ה בָּאַמָּֽה׃

[Exodus 38:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.9/)

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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:1161` 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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