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title: Exodus 26:16 (JPS 1917) — Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. Who acts: length, breadth. Exodus 26:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 26:16 · JPS 1917

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Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.

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**Who acts:** length, breadth · **What happens:** be, cubit · **To what, where:** Ten cubits

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This is Exodus 26:16 · 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), 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:756
# text = Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cubit	cubit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
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	13	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1, 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 a board | Ten cubits and a cubit and a half |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cubit** |  | the breadth of each board |  |  |  |  |  | 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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עֶ֥שֶׂר אַמּ֖וֹת אֹ֣רֶךְ הַקָּ֑רֶשׁ וְאַמָּה֙ וַחֲצִ֣י הָֽאַמָּ֔ה רֹ֖חַב הַקֶּ֥רֶשׁ הָאֶחָֽד׃

[Exodus 26:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.16/)

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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:756` 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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