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title: Exodus 28:16 (JPS 1917) — Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length there… · tree and pragmatics
description: Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof. Who acts: work, span, breadth. Exodus 28:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 28:16 · JPS 1917

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Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.

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**Who acts:** work, span, breadth · **What happens:** be, span · **To what, where:** length

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This is Exodus 28:16 · 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 (work, span, 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:814
# text = Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.
1	Four	four	ADV	RB	NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
16	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
23	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | shall | work |  |  |  |  | four, square *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | a span | the length and a span |  |  |  | thereof *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **span** |  | the breadth |  |  |  |  |  | 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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רָב֥וּעַ יִֽהְיֶ֖ה כָּפ֑וּל זֶ֥רֶת אָרְכּ֖וֹ וְזֶ֥רֶת רָחְבּֽוֹ׃

[Exodus 28:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.16/)

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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:814` 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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