Nehemiah 5:15 · JPS 1917
But the former governors that were before me laid burdens upon the people, and took of them for bread and wine above forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants lorded over the people; but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Who acts: former governors, servants · What happens: be, lay, take, lord, fear · To what, where: burdens, forty shekels, God
This is Nehemiah 5:15 · 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 (former governors, servants), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 laid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 governors | det |
| 3 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 governors | amod |
| 4 | governors | governor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 laid | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 me | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 me | cop |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 governors | acl:relcl |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | burdens | burden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 laid | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 laid | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laid | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 bread | case |
| 20 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wine | cc |
| 22 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bread | conj |
| 23 | above | above | ADP | _ | 25 shekels | case |
| 24 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 shekels | nummod |
| 25 | shekels | shekel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 silver | case |
| 27 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shekels | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 lorded | punct |
| 29 | yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 34 lorded | discourse |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 yea | punct |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 servants | advmod |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 servants | nmod:poss |
| 33 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 lorded | nsubj |
| 34 | lorded | lord | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laid | parataxis |
| 35 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 people | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 people | det |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 lorded | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 did | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 did | cc |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 did | advmod |
| 41 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 lorded | conj |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 did | advmod |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 did | nsubj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 fear | punct |
| 45 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 48 fear | case |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 because | fixed |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 fear | det |
| 48 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 did | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 God | case |
| 50 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 fear | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 laid | 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 | past | the former governors | before me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | the former governors | burdens | upon the people | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent burden=Theme upon people=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past | the former governors not said here | forty shekels of silver | of people; for bread and wine | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent of they=Source for bread=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | lord | past | people's servants | over the people | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fear | God | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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
וְהַפַּחוֹת֩ הָרִאשֹׁנִ֨ים אֲשֶׁר־לְפָנַ֜י הִכְבִּ֣ידוּ עַל־הָעָ֗ם וַיִּקְח֨וּ מֵהֶ֜ם בְּלֶ֤חֶם וָיַ֙יִן֙ אַחַר֙ כֶּֽסֶף־שְׁקָלִ֣ים אַרְבָּעִ֔ים גַּ֥ם נַעֲרֵיהֶ֖ם שָׁלְט֣וּ עַל־הָעָ֑ם וַאֲנִי֙ לֹא־עָשִׂ֣יתִי כֵ֔ן מִפְּנֵ֖י יִרְאַ֥ת אֱלֹהִֽים׃
Nehemiah 5:15: 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:117 of Mova's parse database.
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