--- title: Exodus 39:5 (JPS 1917) — And the skilfully woven band, that was upon it, wherewith to gird it… · tree and pragmatics description: And the skilfully woven band, that was upon it, wherewith to gird it on, was of the same piece and like the work thereof: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, as the LORD commanded Moses. Who acts: woven band, LORD, gold. 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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 (woven band, LORD, gold), 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:1188 # text = And the skilfully woven band, that was upon it, wherewith to gird it on, was of the same piece and like the work thereof: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, as the LORD commanded Moses. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 skilfully skilfully ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 woven weave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 wherewith wherewith ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 gird gird VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 csubj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 on on ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 27 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 scarlet scarlet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 twined twine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ _ 44 linen linen NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 as as SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 49 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 50 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weave** | participle | | | | | | skilfully *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | the woven band | | | | | upon scarlet | tree rules | | 3 | **gird on** | to-infinitive | | scarlet | | | | wherewith *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | the woven band | | | | | of the same piece and the work of gold | tree rules | | 5 | **twine** | participle | | | | | | | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moses=Theme | | 7 | **work** | | gold | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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} וְחֵ֨שֶׁב אֲפֻדָּת֜וֹ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָלָ֗יו מִמֶּ֣נּוּ הוּא֮ כְּמַעֲשֵׂהוּ֒ זָהָ֗ב תְּכֵ֧לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן וְתוֹלַ֥עַת שָׁנִ֖י וְשֵׁ֣שׁ מָשְׁזָ֑ר כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃ [Exodus 39:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1188` 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 39:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1187/) - next →: [Exodus 39:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1189/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 39:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.5/)