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title: Exodus 31:4 (JPS 1917) — to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, · tree and pragmatics
description: to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, Exodus 31:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 31:4 · JPS 1917

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to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

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**What happens:** devise, work · **To what, where:** skilful works

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This is Exodus 31:4 · 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: 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:930
# text = to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	devise	devise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	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 | **devise** | to-infinitive |  | skilful works |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in gold and silver and brass | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in gold=Theme |

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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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לַחְשֹׁ֖ב מַחֲשָׁבֹ֑ת לַעֲשׂ֛וֹת בַּזָּהָ֥ב וּבַכֶּ֖סֶף וּבַנְּחֹֽשֶׁת׃

[Exodus 31:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.31.4/)

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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:930` 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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