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title: Exodus 28:30 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the T… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD; and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually. Who acts: thou, breastplate, Israel, Aaron. Exod
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# Exodus 28:30 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD; and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

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**Who acts:** thou, breastplate, Israel, Aaron · **What happens:** put, be, go in, bear, judge · **To what, where:** Urim, breastplate, judgment, children

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This is Exodus 28:30 · 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 (thou, breastplate, Israel, Aaron), 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:828
# text = And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD; and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Urim	Urim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Thummim	Thummim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	23	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	36	aux	_	_
36	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
47	before	before	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
50	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
51	.	.	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 | **put** | shall | thou | the Urim and the Thummim |  | the breastplate of judgment |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent urim=Theme in breastplate=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | shall | breastplate |  |  |  |  | upon Aaron's heart | tree rules |
| 3 | **go in** | present | Israel |  |  |  | before the LORD |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before lord=Location |
| 4 | **bear** | shall | Aaron | the judgment of the children of Israel |  |  | before the LORD | upon Israel's heart; continually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Patient |
| 5 | **judge** |  |  | the children of Israel |  |  |  |  | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: of=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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וְנָתַתָּ֞ אֶל־חֹ֣שֶׁן הַמִּשְׁפָּ֗ט אֶת־הָאוּרִים֙ וְאֶת־הַתֻּמִּ֔ים וְהָיוּ֙ עַל־לֵ֣ב אַהֲרֹ֔ן בְּבֹא֖וֹ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְנָשָׂ֣א אַ֠הֲרֹן אֶת־מִשְׁפַּ֨ט בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֧ל עַל־לִבּ֛וֹ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה תָּמִֽיד׃ס

[Exodus 28:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.30/)

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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:828` of Mova's parse database.

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