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title: Exodus 25:10 (JPS 1917) — And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half sha… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. Who acts: pattern, two cubits. Exodus 25:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 25:10 · JPS 1917

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And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

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**Who acts:** pattern, two cubits · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** ark, length

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This is Exodus 25:10 · 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 (pattern, two cubits), 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:710
# text = And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	acacia	acacia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	conj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
21	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cubit	cubit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
31	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cubit	cubit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
41	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	.	.	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 | **make** | shall | pattern | a ark of acacia wood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ark=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | shall | two cubits and a half | the length and a cubit and a half and a half and the breadth and a cubit and the height |  |  |  | thereof *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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וְעָשׂ֥וּ אֲר֖וֹן עֲצֵ֣י שִׁטִּ֑ים אַמָּתַ֨יִם וָחֵ֜צִי אָרְכּ֗וֹ וְאַמָּ֤ה וָחֵ֙צִי֙ רָחְבּ֔וֹ וְאַמָּ֥ה וָחֵ֖צִי קֹמָתֽוֹ׃

[Exodus 25:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.10/)

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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:710` 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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