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title: Exodus 28:28 (JPS 1917) — And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a thread of blue, that it may be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod. Who acts: rings, ephod. Exodus 28:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and 
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# Exodus 28:28 · JPS 1917

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And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a thread of blue, that it may be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.

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**Who acts:** rings, ephod · **What happens:** bind, weave, be, not loose · **To what, where:** breastplate, ephod

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This is Exodus 28:28 · 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 (rings, ephod), 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:826
# text = And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a thread of blue, that it may be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ephod	ephod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	skilfully	skilfully	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	ephod	ephod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	loosed	loose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	ephod	ephod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	.	.	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 | **bind** | shall | rings *= ring* | the breastplate |  |  |  | by the rings; unto the rings of the ephod; with a thread of blue | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent breastplate=Patient with thread=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **weave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | skilfully *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | may | ephod |  |  |  |  | upon the woven band; of the ephod | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **loose** | infinitive · passive |  | the breastplate |  | the ephod |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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וְיִרְכְּס֣וּ אֶת־הַ֠חֹשֶׁן מִֽטַּבְּעֹתָ֞יו אֶל־טַבְּעֹ֤ת הָאֵפֹד֙ בִּפְתִ֣יל תְּכֵ֔לֶת לִֽהְי֖וֹת עַל־חֵ֣שֶׁב הָאֵפ֑וֹד וְלֹֽא־יִזַּ֣ח הַחֹ֔שֶׁן מֵעַ֖ל הָאֵפֽוֹד׃

[Exodus 28:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.28/)

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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:826` 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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