Nehemiah 5:5 · JPS 1917
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already; neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.'
Who acts: flesh, we, other men · What happens: be, bring, help, have · To what, where: sons, bondage, servants, some, power, flesh
This is Nehemiah 5:5 · 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 (flesh, we, other men), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 8 flesh | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 flesh | advmod |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 4 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flesh | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 flesh | cop |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 flesh | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flesh | det |
| 8 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 brethren | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flesh | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 children | punct |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 children | nmod:poss |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flesh | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 children | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 children | nmod:poss |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flesh | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 bring | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bring | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lo | punct |
| 21 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 24 bring | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lo | punct |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 bring | nsubj |
| 24 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 flesh | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 bondage | case |
| 26 | bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bring | obl |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 sons | nmod:poss |
| 28 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bring | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 daughters | cc |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 31 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sons | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 servants | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 servants | cop |
| 34 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bring | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 brought | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 brought | cc |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 daughters | case |
| 39 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 40 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 some | nmod |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 brought | aux:pass |
| 42 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 bring | conj |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 bondage | case |
| 44 | bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 brought | obl |
| 45 | already | already | ADV | _ | 42 brought | advmod |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 power | punct |
| 47 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 52 power | cc |
| 48 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 power | cop |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 power | nsubj |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 power | case |
| 51 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 power | nmod:poss |
| 52 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flesh | conj |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 help | mark |
| 54 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 power | acl |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 help | obj |
| 56 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 60 have | punct |
| 57 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 60 have | mark |
| 58 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 men | amod |
| 59 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 60 have | nsubj |
| 60 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 flesh | parataxis |
| 61 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 fields | nmod:poss |
| 62 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 60 have | obj |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 vineyards | cc |
| 64 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 65 vineyards | nmod:poss |
| 65 | vineyards | vineyard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 fields | conj |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flesh | punct |
| 67 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 flesh | 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 | is | present | our flesh | now | as the flesh and our children and children's children neither our power; of our brethren | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | present | we | our sons and our daughters | bondage | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme into bondage=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | we not said here | servants | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | present · passive | some | bondage | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into bondage=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is | present | flesh | our power | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | help | to-infinitive | our flesh not said here | flesh | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | have | present | other men | our fields and our vineyards | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient |
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
וְעַתָּ֗ה כִּבְשַׂ֤ר אַחֵ֙ינוּ֙ בְּשָׂרֵ֔נוּ כִּבְנֵיהֶ֖ם בָּנֵ֑ינוּ וְהִנֵּ֣ה אֲנַ֣חְנוּ כֹ֠בְשִׁים אֶת־בָּנֵ֨ינוּ וְאֶת־בְּנֹתֵ֜ינוּ לַעֲבָדִ֗ים וְיֵ֨שׁ מִבְּנֹתֵ֤ינוּ נִכְבָּשׁוֹת֙ וְאֵ֣ין לְאֵ֣ל יָדֵ֔נוּ וּשְׂדֹתֵ֥ינוּ וּכְרָמֵ֖ינוּ לַאֲחֵרִֽים׃
Nehemiah 5:5: 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:105 of Mova's parse database.
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