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title: Exodus 30:2 (JPS 1917) — A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it. Who acts: cubit, two cubits, horns. Exodus 30:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Exodus 30:2 · JPS 1917

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A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it.

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**Who acts:** cubit, two cubits, horns · **What happens:** be, breadth · **To what, where:** length, height

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This is Exodus 30:2 · 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 (cubit, two cubits, horns), 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:890
# text = A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cubit	cubit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cubit	cubit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	foursquare	foursquare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
28	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
32	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | shall | a cubit | the length and the breadth and the height and one piece |  |  |  | thereof *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **breadth** |  | a cubit |  |  |  |  | thereof *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | shall | cubit |  |  |  |  | foursquare *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | shall | two cubits | the height |  |  |  | thereof *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | shall | the horns |  |  |  |  | of one piece; with cubit | tree rules |

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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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אַמָּ֨ה אָרְכּ֜וֹ וְאַמָּ֤ה רָחְבּוֹ֙ רָב֣וּעַ יִהְיֶ֔ה וְאַמָּתַ֖יִם קֹמָת֑וֹ מִמֶּ֖נּוּ קַרְנֹתָֽיו׃

[Exodus 30:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.2/)

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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:890` 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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