Nehemiah 5:3 · JPS 1917

Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us get corn, because of the dearth.'

Who acts: Some, We, us · What happens: be, say, mortgage, let, get · To what, where: fields, us, corn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 5:3 · 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 (Some, 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 were	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	4 were	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Some	acl:relcl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 mortgaging	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 mortgaging	punct
9	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 mortgaging	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mortgaging	aux
11	mortgaging	mortgage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fields	nmod:poss
13	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mortgaging	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 vineyards	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 vineyards	cc
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 vineyards	nmod:poss
17	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fields	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 houses	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 houses	cc
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 houses	nmod:poss
21	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fields	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 mortgaging	parataxis
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dearth	punct
28	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	31 dearth	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 because	fixed
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dearth	det
31	dearth	dearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 were	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 were	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	Some		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 clause=Topic
3	mortgage	present · progressive	We	our fields and our vineyards and our houses			tree rules
4	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
5	get	infinitive	us not said here	corn		because the dearth	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer corn=Stimulus

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 שְׂדֹתֵ֛ינוּ וּכְרָמֵ֥ינוּ וּבָתֵּ֖ינוּ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ עֹרְבִ֑ים וְנִקְחָ֥ה דָגָ֖ן בָּרָעָֽב׃

Nehemiah 5:3: 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:103 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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