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title: Exodus 39:3 (JPS 1917) — And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into threads… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into threads, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skilful workman. Who acts: ephod, skilful workman. Exodus 39:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Exodus 39:3 · JPS 1917

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And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into threads, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skilful workman.

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**Who acts:** ephod, skilful workman · **What happens:** beat, cut, work · **To what, where:** gold, thin plates, scarlet, threads, blue

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This is Exodus 39:3 · 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 (ephod, skilful workman), 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:1186
# text = And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into threads, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skilful workman.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	workman	workman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past · do-support | ephod | the gold |  | thin plates |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gold=Patient into plate=Recipient |
| 2 | **cut** | infinitive | ephod *not said here* | scarlet |  | threads |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into thread=Product |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | ephod *not said here* | scarlet |  | the blue and the purple and the scarlet and the fine linen |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent it=Material |
| 4 | **work** |  | the skilful workman |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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}

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וַֽיְרַקְּע֞וּ אֶת־פַּחֵ֣י הַזָּהָב֮ וְקִצֵּ֣ץ פְּתִילִם֒ לַעֲשׂ֗וֹת בְּת֤וֹךְ הַתְּכֵ֙לֶת֙ וּבְת֣וֹךְ הָֽאַרְגָּמָ֔ן וּבְת֛וֹךְ תּוֹלַ֥עַת הַשָּׁנִ֖י וּבְת֣וֹךְ הַשֵּׁ֑שׁ מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה חֹשֵֽׁב׃

[Exodus 39:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.3/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1186` 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.

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