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title: Exodus 28:8 (JPS 1917) — And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof and of the same piece: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. Who acts: woven band. Exodus 28:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 28:8 · JPS 1917

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And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof and of the same piece: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

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**Who acts:** woven band · **What happens:** weave, be, gird on, twine · **To what, where:** ephod

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This is Exodus 28:8 · 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 (woven band), 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:806
# text = And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof and of the same piece: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	skilfully	skilfully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	gird	gird	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
23	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	scarlet	scarlet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	twined	twine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
45	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | skilfully *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the woven band |  |  |  |  | upon ephod | tree rules |
| 3 | **gird on** | to-infinitive | the woven band *not said here* | ephod |  |  |  | wherewith *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | shall | the woven band |  |  |  |  | like the work and the same piece; of gold of blue and fine twined linen; thereof *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **twine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְחֵ֤שֶׁב אֲפֻדָּתוֹ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָלָ֔יו כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֖הוּ מִמֶּ֣נּוּ יִהְיֶ֑ה זָהָ֗ב תְּכֵ֧לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן וְתוֹלַ֥עַת שָׁנִ֖י וְשֵׁ֥שׁ מָשְׁזָֽר׃

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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:806` of Mova's parse database.

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