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title: Exodus 25:38 (JPS 1917) — And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold. Who acts: tongs. Exodus 25:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 25:38 · JPS 1917

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And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

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**Who acts:** tongs · **What happens:** be

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This is Exodus 25:38 · 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 (tongs), 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:738
# text = And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tongs	tong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
4	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	snuffdishes	snuffdish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall | the tongs and the snuffdishes |  |  |  |  | of pure gold | 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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וּמַלְקָחֶ֥יהָ וּמַחְתֹּתֶ֖יהָ זָהָ֥ב טָהֽוֹר׃

[Exodus 25:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.38/)

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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:738` 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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