--- title: Exodus 25:12 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the f… · tree and pragmatics description: And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four feet thereof; and two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. Who acts: thou, two rings. 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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 (thou, two rings), 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:712 # text = And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four feet thereof; and two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 cast cast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cast** | shall | thou | four rings of gold | | | | for ark | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ring=Material for it=Beneficiary | | 2 | **put** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | rings *= ring* | | the four feet | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in foot=Destination | | 3 | **is** | shall | two rings | | | the one side and two rings on the other side of ark | | of ark | tree rules | 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} וְיָצַ֣קְתָּ לּ֗וֹ אַרְבַּע֙ טַבְּעֹ֣ת זָהָ֔ב וְנָ֣תַתָּ֔ה עַ֖ל אַרְבַּ֣ע פַּעֲמֹתָ֑יו וּשְׁתֵּ֣י טַבָּעֹ֗ת עַל־צַלְעוֹ֙ הָֽאֶחָ֔ת וּשְׁתֵּי֙ טַבָּעֹ֔ת עַל־צַלְע֖וֹ הַשֵּׁנִֽית׃ [Exodus 25:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:712` 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 25:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.711/) - next →: [Exodus 25:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.713/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 25:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.12/)