Nehemiah 2:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king.
Who acts: wine, I · What happens: come, pass, be, take up, give · To what, where: it, wine
This is Nehemiah 2:1 · 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 (wine, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 month | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 month | det |
| 8 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obl |
| 9 | Nisan | Nisan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 month | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 year | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 year | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 year | det |
| 13 | twentieth | twentieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 year | amod |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Artaxerxes | case |
| 16 | Artaxerxes | Artaxerxes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 year | nmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 year | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 him | punct |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 him | mark |
| 21 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 him | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 him | cop |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 took | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 took | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | csubj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 took | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wine | det |
| 31 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 gave | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 gave | cc |
| 34 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 took | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 gave | obj |
| 36 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 38 king | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 king | det |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gave | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | it | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | month | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | wine | before king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take up | past | I | the wine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | past | I not said here | wine | unto the king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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
וַיְהִ֣י ׀ בְּחֹ֣דֶשׁ נִיסָ֗ן שְׁנַ֥ת עֶשְׂרִ֛ים לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥סְתְּא הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ יַ֣יִן לְפָנָ֑יו וָאֶשָּׂ֤א אֶת־הַיַּ֙יִן֙ וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְלֹא־הָיִ֥יתִי רַ֖ע לְפָנָֽיו׃
Nehemiah 2:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king.
- Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NEH:12 of Mova's parse database.
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