Nehemiah 5:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Also I shook out my lap, and said: 'So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied.' And all the congregation said: 'Amen', and praised the LORD.
Who acts: I, God, man, congregation · What happens: shake out, say, not perform, empty, praise · To what, where: lap, man, labour, promise, God, LORD · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 5:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (I, God, man, congregation), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 3 shook | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 shook | compound:prt |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lap | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 shake | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 shake | punct |
| 12 | So | so | ADV | _ | 14 shake | advmod |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 shake | nsubj |
| 14 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 shake | compound:prt |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shake | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shake | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 labour | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 labour | cc |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 labour | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 labour | nmod:poss |
| 25 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 performeth | punct |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 performeth | nsubj |
| 28 | performeth | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | acl:relcl |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 performeth | advmod |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 promise | det |
| 31 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 performeth | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 shaken | punct |
| 33 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 thus | advmod |
| 34 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 37 shaken | advmod |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 shaken | aux:pass |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 shaken | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | parataxis |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 shaken | compound:prt |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 emptied | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 emptied | cc |
| 41 | emptied | empty | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 shaken | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
| 44 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 said | cc |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 congregation | det:predet |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 congregation | det |
| 47 | congregation | congregation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 said | nsubj |
| 48 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 49 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 51 Amen | punct |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 51 Amen | punct |
| 51 | Amen | amen | INTJ | _ | 48 said | ccomp |
| 52 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 51 Amen | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 praised | cc |
| 54 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 said | conj |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 LORD | det |
| 56 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 praised | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake out | past | I | my lap | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lap=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shake out | infinitive | God | every man | God's labour | from God's house | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent man=Theme from house=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | not perform | present | every man | this promise | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shake out | infinitive · passive | God | thus property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | empty | participle | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | all congregation | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | praise | past | all congregation not said here | the LORD | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=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
גַּם־חָצְנִ֣י נָעַ֗רְתִּי וָֽאֹמְרָ֡ה כָּ֣כָה יְנַעֵ֪ר הָֽאֱלֹהִ֟ים אֶת־כָּל־הָאִישׁ֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹֽא־יָקִ֜ים אֶת־הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֗ה מִבֵּיתוֹ֙ וּמִ֣יגִיע֔וֹ וְכָ֛כָה יִהְיֶ֥ה נָע֖וּר וָרֵ֑ק וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ כָֽל־הַקָּהָ֜ל אָמֵ֗ן וַֽיְהַלְלוּ֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הָעָ֖ם כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃
Nehemiah 5:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Also I shook out my lap, and said: 'So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied.' And all the congregation said: 'Amen', and praised the LORD.
- And the people did according to this promise.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NEH:114 of Mova's parse database.
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