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title: Exodus 26:8 (JPS 1917) — The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth o… · tree and pragmatics
description: The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have one measure. Who acts: length, breadth, eleven curtains. Exodus 26:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 26:8 · JPS 1917

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The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have one measure.

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**Who acts:** length, breadth, eleven curtains · **What happens:** be, cubit, have · **To what, where:** thirty cubits, one measure

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This is Exodus 26:8 · 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 (length, breadth, eleven curtains), 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:748
# text = The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | shall | the length of each curtain | thirty cubits and four cubits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cubit** |  | the breadth of each curtain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | shall | the eleven curtains | one measure |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient |

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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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אֹ֣רֶךְ ׀ הַיְרִיעָ֣ה הָֽאַחַ֗ת שְׁלֹשִׁים֙ בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה וְרֹ֙חַב֙ אַרְבַּ֣ע בָּאַמָּ֔ה הַיְרִיעָ֖ה הָאֶחָ֑ת מִדָּ֣ה אַחַ֔ת לְעַשְׁתֵּ֥י עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה יְרִיעֹֽת׃

[Exodus 26:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.8/)

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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:748` 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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