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title: Exodus 28:40 (JPS 1917) — And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make tunics, and thou shalt make for… · tree and pragmatics
description: And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make tunics, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them, for splendour and for beauty. Who acts: thou. Exodus 28:40 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 28:40 · JPS 1917

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And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make tunics, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them, for splendour and for beauty.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** tunics, girdles, head tires

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This is Exodus 28:40 · 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), 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:838
# text = And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make tunics, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them, for splendour and for beauty.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	tunics	tunic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	girdles	girdle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	tires	tire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
23	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | shall | thou | tunics |  |  |  | for Aaron's sons | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tunic=Material for son=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **make** | shall | thou | girdles |  |  |  | for Aaron | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent girdle=Material for they=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **make** | shall | thou | head tires |  |  |  | for Aaron; for splendour and beauty | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent tire=Product for they=Asset |

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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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וְלִבְנֵ֤י אַהֲרֹן֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה כֻתֳּנֹ֔ת וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ לָהֶ֖ם אַבְנֵטִ֑ים וּמִגְבָּעוֹת֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה לָהֶ֔ם לְכָב֖וֹד וּלְתִפְאָֽרֶת׃

[Exodus 28:40: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.40/)

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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:838` 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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