--- title: Exodus 38:26 (JPS 1917) — a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanct… · tree and pragmatics description: a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed over to them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men. Who acts: beka, one. Exodus 38:26 in JPS 1917 with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1178/) [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/) / [38:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.26/) / JPS 1 # Exodus 38:26 · JPS 1917 a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed over to them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men. **Who acts:** beka, one · **What happens:** be, pass over, number · **To what, where:** shekel, shekels, one, old This is Exodus 38:26 · 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 (beka, one), 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:1178 # text = a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed over to them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men. 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 beka beka NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 11 det:predet _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 shekel shekel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 shekel shekel NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sanctuary sanctuary NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 over over ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 numbered number VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl:relcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 upward upward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 40 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 compound _ _ 41 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 compound _ _ 42 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 nummod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 conj _ _ 45 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 nummod _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 compound _ _ 48 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 nummod _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 conj _ _ 51 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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** | present | a beka | half shekel | | | after the shekel of the sanctuary | for every one | tree rules | | 2 | **pass over** | past | every one | | shekels *= shekel* | | | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **number** | present · passive | | every one | | old | | for thousand thousand hundred men | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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} בֶּ֚קַע לַגֻּלְגֹּ֔לֶת מַחֲצִ֥ית הַשֶּׁ֖קֶל בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ לְכֹ֨ל הָעֹבֵ֜ר עַל־הַפְּקֻדִ֗ים מִבֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָמַ֔עְלָה לְשֵׁשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֙לֶף֙ וּשְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֔ים וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת וַחֲמִשִּֽׁים׃ [Exodus 38:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1178` 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 38:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1177/) - next →: [Exodus 38:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1179/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 38:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.26/)