--- title: Exodus 27:16 (JPS 1917) — And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of… · tree and pragmatics description: And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours: their pillars four, and their sockets four. Who acts: weaver. 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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 (weaver), 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:793 # text = And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours: their pillars four, and their sockets four. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 cubits cubit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 scarlet scarlet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 twined twine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 linen linen NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 weaver weaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 37 : : PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 parataxis _ _ 40 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 sockets socket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ _ 45 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | shall | | a screen and the work of the weaver in colours | | | | for the gate of the court; of twenty cubits of blue and fine twined linen | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | | the weaver | | | colours | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent in=place | 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} וּלְשַׁ֨עַר הֶֽחָצֵ֜ר מָסָ֣ךְ ׀ עֶשְׂרִ֣ים אַמָּ֗ה תְּכֵ֨לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֜ן וְתוֹלַ֧עַת שָׁנִ֛י וְשֵׁ֥שׁ מָשְׁזָ֖ר מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה רֹקֵ֑ם עַמֻּֽדֵיהֶם֙ אַרְבָּעָ֔ה וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֖ם אַרְבָּעָֽה׃ [Exodus 27:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:793` 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. - ← previous: [Exodus 27:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.792/) - next →: [Exodus 27:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.794/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 27:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.16/)