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title: Exodus 39:9 (JPS 1917) — It was four-square; they made the breastplate double; a span was the… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was four-square; they made the breastplate double; a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double. Who acts: breastplate, ephod, span, breadth. Exodus 39:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 39:9 · JPS 1917

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It was four-square; they made the breastplate double; a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.

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**Who acts:** breastplate, ephod, span, breadth · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** breastplate, length

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This is Exodus 39:9 · 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 (breastplate, ephod, span, breadth), 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:1192
# text = It was four-square; they made the breastplate double; a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
18	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	orphan	_	_
25	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
28	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | past | breastplate |  |  |  |  | square *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | ephod | the breastplate |  |  |  | double *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breastplate=Product |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a span | the length and a span |  |  |  | thereof *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | the breadth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | double *property* | tree rules |

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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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רָב֧וּעַ הָיָ֛ה כָּפ֖וּל עָשׂ֣וּ אֶת־הַחֹ֑שֶׁן זֶ֧רֶת אָרְכּ֛וֹ וְזֶ֥רֶת רָחְבּ֖וֹ כָּפֽוּל׃

[Exodus 39:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.9/)

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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:1192` 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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