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title: Exodus 26:9 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. Who acts: thou. Exodus 26:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 26:9 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** couple, double over · **To what, where:** five curtains, sixth curtain, forefront

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This is Exodus 26:9 · 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 (thou), 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:749
# text = And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.
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	couple	couple	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	double	double	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	forefront	forefront	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **couple** | shall | thou | five curtains |  |  |  | by curtains *= curtain* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Patient |
| 2 | **double over** | shall | thou *not said here* | the sixth curtain |  | the forefront of the tent |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent curtain=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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וְחִבַּרְתָּ֞ אֶת־חֲמֵ֤שׁ הַיְרִיעֹת֙ לְבָ֔ד וְאֶת־שֵׁ֥שׁ הַיְרִיעֹ֖ת לְבָ֑ד וְכָפַלְתָּ֙ אֶת־הַיְרִיעָ֣ה הַשִּׁשִּׁ֔ית אֶל־מ֖וּל פְּנֵ֥י הָאֹֽהֶל׃

[Exodus 26:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.9/)

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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:749` 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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