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title: Exodus 26:31 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fin… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shall it be made. Who acts: thou, skilful workman. Exodus 26:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 26:31 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shall it be made.

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**Who acts:** thou, skilful workman · **What happens:** make, twine, work · **To what, where:** veil

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This is Exodus 26:31 · 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, skilful workman), 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:771
# text = And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shall it be made.
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	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	twined	twine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	cherubim	cherubim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	workman	workman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1, polarity=none, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | shall | thou | a veil of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset veil=Product |
| 2 | **twine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | shall · passive |  | veil |  |  |  | with cherubim | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **work** |  | the skilful workman |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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וְעָשִׂ֣יתָ פָרֹ֗כֶת תְּכֵ֧לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן וְתוֹלַ֥עַת שָׁנִ֖י וְשֵׁ֣שׁ מָשְׁזָ֑ר מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה חֹשֵׁ֛ב יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֹתָ֖הּ כְּרֻבִֽים׃

[Exodus 26:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.31/)

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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:771` 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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