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title: Exodus 30:1 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia-wood sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia-wood shalt thou make it. Who acts: thou. Exodus 30:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 30:1 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia-wood shalt thou make it.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** make, burn · **To what, where:** altar, incense

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This is Exodus 30:1 · 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:889
# text = And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia-wood shalt thou make it.
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	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	acacia	acacia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- 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 | a altar |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset altar=Product |
| 2 | **burn** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | incense |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent incense=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | shall | thou | incense |  |  |  | of acacia wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ מִזְבֵּ֖חַ מִקְטַ֣ר קְטֹ֑רֶת עֲצֵ֥י שִׁטִּ֖ים תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֹתֽוֹ׃

[Exodus 30:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.1/)

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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:889` 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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