--- title: Exodus 38:17 (JPS 1917) — And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pill… · tree and pragmatics description: And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. Who acts: sockets. 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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 (sockets), 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:1169 # text = And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sockets socket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 fillets fillet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 overlaying overlaying NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 capitals capital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 filleted fillet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the sockets for the pillars | | | | | of brass and the hooks of the pillars and sockets's fillets of silver and the overlaying of sockets's capitals of silver | tree rules | | 2 | **fillet** | past · passive | | all pillars of the court | | | | with silver | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with silver=Instrument | 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} וְהָאֲדָנִ֣ים לָֽעַמֻּדִים֮ נְחֹשֶׁת֒ וָוֵ֨י הָֽעַמּוּדִ֜ים וַחֲשׁוּקֵיהֶם֙ כֶּ֔סֶף וְצִפּ֥וּי רָאשֵׁיהֶ֖ם כָּ֑סֶף וְהֵם֙ מְחֻשָּׁקִ֣ים כֶּ֔סֶף כֹּ֖ל עַמֻּדֵ֥י הֶחָצֵֽר׃ [Exodus 38:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1169` 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 38:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1168/) - next →: [Exodus 38:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1170/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 38:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.17/)