Nehemiah 1:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Now it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the castle,
Who acts: I · What happens: come, pass, be · To what, where: it, Shushan
This is Nehemiah 1:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (I), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | csubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 month | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 month | det |
| 8 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | Chislev | Chislev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 month | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 year | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 year | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 year | det |
| 13 | twentieth | twentieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 year | amod |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Shushan | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 Shushan | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 Shushan | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Shushan | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Shushan | case |
| 20 | Shushan | Shushan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Shushan | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | it | now; month; year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | I | Shushan | tree rules |
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
דִּבְרֵ֥י נְחֶמְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חֲכַלְיָ֑ה וַיְהִ֤י בְחֹֽדֶשׁ־כִּסְלֵיו֙ שְׁנַ֣ת עֶשְׂרִ֔ים וַאֲנִ֥י הָיִ֖יתִי בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן הַבִּירָֽה׃
Nehemiah 1:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- THE WORDS of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.
- Now it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the castle,
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NEH:1 of Mova's parse database.
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