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title: Exodus 27:1 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt make the altar of acacia-wood, five cubits long, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt make the altar of acacia-wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be four-square; and the height thereof shall be three cubits. Who acts: thou, altar, height. Exodus 27:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 27:1 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt make the altar of acacia-wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be four-square; and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

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**Who acts:** thou, altar, height · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** altar, three cubits

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This is Exodus 27:1 · 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, altar, height), 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:778
# text = And thou shalt make the altar of acacia-wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be four-square; and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
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	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	acacia	acacia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
32	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
35	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
37	.	.	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 | **make** | shall | thou | the altar of acacia wood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset altar=Product |
| 2 | **is** | shall | the altar |  |  |  |  | square *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | the height | three cubits |  |  |  |  | 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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וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ עֲצֵ֣י שִׁטִּ֑ים חָמֵשׁ֩ אַמּ֨וֹת אֹ֜רֶךְ וְחָמֵ֧שׁ אַמּ֣וֹת רֹ֗חַב רָב֤וּעַ יִהְיֶה֙ הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ וְשָׁלֹ֥שׁ אַמּ֖וֹת קֹמָתֽוֹ׃

[Exodus 27:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.1/)

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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:778` 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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