Nehemiah 5:2 · JPS 1917

For there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many; let us get for them corn, that we may eat and live.'

Who acts: that, We, us · What happens: be, say, let, get, eat, live · To what, where: us, corn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 5:2 · 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 (that, We, us), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 were	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 that	acl:relcl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 many	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 many	punct
8	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 many	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sons	punct
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sons	nmod:poss
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 We	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 daughters	cc
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughters	nmod:poss
14	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 We	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 We	punct
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 many	cop
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 get	obl
24	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 eat	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 eat	mark
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 eat	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 eat	aux
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 get	advcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 live	cc
31	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 eat	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	that		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	We			many property	tree rules
4	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
5	get	infinitive	us not said here	corn		for daughters = daughter	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent corn=Theme for they=Source
6	eat	may	we				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	live	infinitive	we not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

וְיֵשׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֹמְרִ֔ים בָּנֵ֥ינוּ וּבְנֹתֵ֖ינוּ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ רַבִּ֑ים וְנִקְחָ֥ה דָגָ֖ן וְנֹאכְלָ֥ה וְנִחְיֶֽה׃

Nehemiah 5:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NEH:102 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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