--- title: Exodus 39:1 (JPS 1917) — And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made plaited garments… · tree and pragmatics description: And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made plaited garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD commanded Moses. Who acts: blue, LORD. 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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 (blue, LORD), 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:1184 # text = And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made plaited garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD commanded Moses. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 blue blue NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 purple purple NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 scarlet scarlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 plaited plait VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 garments garment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 ministering minister VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 garments garment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 36 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | **make** | past | blue | plaited garments | | | | of the blue and purple and scarlet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garment=Product | | 2 | **plait** | participle | | | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **minister** | gerund | blue *not said here* | | | the holy place | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | past | blue *not said here* | the holy garments | | | | for Aaron | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent garment=Product for aaron=Beneficiary | | 5 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moses=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} וּמִן־הַתְּכֵ֤לֶת וְהָֽאַרְגָּמָן֙ וְתוֹלַ֣עַת הַשָּׁנִ֔י עָשׂ֥וּ בִגְדֵי־שְׂרָ֖ד לְשָׁרֵ֣ת בַּקֹּ֑דֶשׁ וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֞וּ אֶת־בִּגְדֵ֤י הַקֹּ֙דֶשׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לְאַהֲרֹ֔ן כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃פ [Exodus 39:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1184` 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 38:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1183/) - next →: [Exodus 39:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1185/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 39:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.1/)