--- title: Exodus 28:21 (JPS 1917) — And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Is… · tree and pragmatics description: And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes. Who acts: stones, one, Israel. 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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 (stones, one, Israel), 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:819 # text = And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 6 according accord ADP VBG _ 9 case _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 appos _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 according accord ADP VBG _ 21 case _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 engravings engraving NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 signet signet NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 32 according accord ADP VBG _ 35 case _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 38 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 tribes tribe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 parataxis _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 43 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** | shall | the stones | | | | | accord the names; of the children of Israel; accord stones's names | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | shall | every one accord Israel's name | | | | | for the twelve tribes; like the engravings of a signet | tree rules | | 3 | **name** | | stones *= stone* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 4 | **name** | | Israel | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְ֠הָאֲבָנִים תִּֽהְיֶ֜יןָ עַל־שְׁמֹ֧ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל שְׁתֵּ֥ים עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה עַל־שְׁמֹתָ֑ם פִּתּוּחֵ֤י חוֹתָם֙ אִ֣ישׁ עַל־שְׁמ֔וֹ תִּֽהְיֶ֕יןָ לִשְׁנֵ֥י עָשָׂ֖ר שָֽׁבֶט׃ [Exodus 28:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:819` 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 28:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.818/) - next →: [Exodus 28:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.820/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 28:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.21/)