Nehemiah 5:4 · JPS 1917

There were also that said: 'We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.

Who acts: that, We · What happens: be, say, borrow · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 5:4 · 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: who acts (that, We), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 were	advmod
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 were	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 that	acl:relcl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 borrowed	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 borrowed	punct
8	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 borrowed	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 borrowed	aux
10	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 borrowed	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	16 tribute	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tribute	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 king	case
16	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 borrowed	obl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 fields	case
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fields	nmod:poss
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 borrowed	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 vineyards	cc
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 vineyards	nmod:poss
22	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fields	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	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 clause=Topic
3	borrow	present · perfect	We	money		for the king's tribute; upon our fields and our vineyards	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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 לָוִ֥ינוּ כֶ֖סֶף לְמִדַּ֣ת הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ שְׂדֹתֵ֖ינוּ וּכְרָמֵֽינוּ׃

Nehemiah 5:4: 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:104 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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