Nehemiah 5:18 · JPS 1917

Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep, also fowls were prepared for me; and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine; yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the service was heavy upon this people.

Who acts: that, I, service · What happens: prepare, be, not demand, sort · To what, where: one ox, fowls, bread, wine

This is Nehemiah 5:18 · 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 (that, I, service), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 ox	advmod
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 ox	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 prepared	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prepared	aux:pass
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 that	acl:relcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prepared	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ox	cop
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 ox	nummod
11	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 prepared	csubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sheep	cc
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 sheep	nummod
14	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sheep	compound
15	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ox	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 prepared	punct
17	also	also	ADV	_	20 prepared	advmod
18	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 prepared	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 prepared	aux:pass
20	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 prepared	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 store	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 store	cc
25	once	once	ADV	NumType=Mult	28 days	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 days	case
27	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 days	nummod
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 store	obl
29	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 prepared	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 sorts	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 sorts	det
32	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 store	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 wine	case
34	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sorts	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 demanded	punct
36	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	41 demanded	cc
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 this	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 this	det:predet
39	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 demanded	obl
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 demanded	nsubj
41	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 prepared	conj
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 demanded	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 bread	det
44	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 demanded	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 governor	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 governor	det
47	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bread	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 heavy	punct
49	because	because	SCONJ	_	53 heavy	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 service	det
51	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 heavy	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 heavy	cop
53	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 demanded	advcl
54	upon	upon	ADP	_	56 people	case
55	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 people	det
56	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 heavy	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	past · passive			day		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is a	past	that	one ox and six choice sheep	now		tree rules
3	prepare	past · passive		fowls		for me	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for i=Beneficiary
4	not demand speech: request	past	I	the bread of the governor		for this	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bread=Precondition
5	is	past	the service			upon this people; heavy property	tree rules
6	sort			wine			nom sort «cognition 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

וַאֲשֶׁר֩ הָיָ֨ה נַעֲשֶׂ֜ה לְי֣וֹם אֶחָ֗ד שׁ֣וֹר אֶחָ֞ד צֹ֠אן שֵׁשׁ־בְּרֻר֤וֹת וְצִפֳּרִים֙ נַֽעֲשׂוּ־לִ֔י וּבֵ֨ין עֲשֶׂ֧רֶת יָמִ֛ים בְּכָל־יַ֖יִן לְהַרְבֵּ֑ה וְעִם־זֶ֗ה לֶ֤חֶם הַפֶּחָה֙ לֹ֣א בִקַּ֔שְׁתִּי כִּֽי־כָֽבְדָ֥ה הָעֲבֹדָ֖ה עַל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃

Nehemiah 5:18: 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:120 of Mova's parse database.

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