--- title: Exodus 38:18 (JPS 1917) — And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of the weaver… · tree and pragmatics description: And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of the weaver in colours, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court. 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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 (screen, twenty cubits, height), 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:1170 # text = And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of the weaver in colours, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 weaver weaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 scarlet scarlet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 twined twine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 linen linen NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 cubits cubit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 breadth breadth NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ _ 48 cubits cubit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 answerable answerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 51 to to ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 hangings hanging NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obl _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **is a** | past | the screen for the gate of the court | the work and the length and five cubits | | colours of blue and fine twined linen | | of the weaver | tree rules | | 2 | **twine** | participle | | | | | | | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | twenty cubits | the length | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | the height in the breadth | five cubits | | | | | 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} וּמָסַ֞ךְ שַׁ֤עַר הֶחָצֵר֙ מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה רֹקֵ֔ם תְּכֵ֧לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן וְתוֹלַ֥עַת שָׁנִ֖י וְשֵׁ֣שׁ מָשְׁזָ֑ר וְעֶשְׂרִ֤ים אַמָּה֙ אֹ֔רֶךְ וְקוֹמָ֤ה בְרֹ֙חַב֙ חָמֵ֣שׁ אַמּ֔וֹת לְעֻמַּ֖ת קַלְעֵ֥י הֶחָצֵֽר׃ [Exodus 38:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1170` 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 38:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1169/) - next →: [Exodus 38:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1171/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 38:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.18/)