--- title: Exodus 38:16 (JPS 1917) — All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen. · tree and pragmatics description: All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen. Who acts: hangings. Exodus 38:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1168/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Exodus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/) / [chapter 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/38/) / [38:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.16/) / JPS 1 # Exodus 38:16 · JPS 1917 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen. **Who acts:** hangings · **What happens:** twine, be This is Exodus 38:16 · 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 (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:1168 # text = All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hangings hanging NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 round round ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 twined twine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 linen linen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **twine** | participle | | | | | | | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | all hangings of the court | | | | | of fine twined linen | tree rules | 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} כָּל־קַלְעֵ֧י הֶחָצֵ֛ר סָבִ֖יב שֵׁ֥שׁ מָשְׁזָֽר׃ [Exodus 38:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1168` 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 38:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1167/) - next →: [Exodus 38:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1169/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 38:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.16/)