Nehemiah 5:12 · JPS 1917

Then said they: 'We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest.' Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.

Who acts: brethren, We, thou, I · What happens: say, restore, require, do, call, take · To what, where: brethren, nothing, priests, oath · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 5:12 · 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 (brethren, We, thou, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 restore	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 restore	punct
6	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 restore	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 restore	aux
8	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 restore	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 require	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 require	cc
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 require	aux
13	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 restore	conj
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 require	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 nothing	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 do	advmod
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 restore	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sayest	punct
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 sayest	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 sayest	mark
25	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 sayest	nsubj
26	sayest	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 do	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
29	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 called	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 called	nsubj
31	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 priests	det
33	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 called	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 took	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 took	cc
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 called	conj
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 oath	det
38	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 took	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 oath	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 do	punct
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 do	mark
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 do	nsubj
44	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 do	aux
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 took	ccomp
46	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 promise	case
47	to	to	ADP	_	46 according	fixed
48	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 promise	det
49	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 do	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: disagree
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	brethren		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	restore	future	We	brethren			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	require	future	We not said here	nothing			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Precondition
4	do	future	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	thou				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	call	past	I	the priests	then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient
7	take	past	I not said here	a oath of brethren			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent oath=Theme clause=Attribute
8	do	should	brethren			accord this promise	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ נָשִׁ֗יב וּמֵהֶם֙ לֹ֣א נְבַקֵּ֔שׁ כֵּ֣ן נַעֲשֶׂ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר אַתָּ֣ה אוֹמֵ֑ר וָאֶקְרָא֙ אֶת־הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים וָֽאַשְׁבִּיעֵ֔ם לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃

Nehemiah 5:12: 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:113 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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