Nehemiah 6:3 · JPS 1917

And I sent messengers unto them, saying: 'I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?'

Who acts: I, work · What happens: send, say, do, not come down, cease, leave · To what, where: messengers, great work, work, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 6:3 · 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 (I, work), 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 sent	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obj
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sent	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 doing	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 doing	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 doing	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 doing	aux
13	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 saying	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 work	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 work	amod
16	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 doing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 come	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 come	advmod
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 doing	advcl
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 cease	punct
26	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 cease	advmod
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 cease	aux
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 work	det
29	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cease	nsubj
30	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 doing	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 leave	punct
32	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	34 leave	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 leave	nsubj
34	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 cease	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 leave	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 come	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 come	cc
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 cease	conj
39	down	down	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 come	obl
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 cease	punct
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 cease	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	I	messengers		unto messengers = messenger	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	I not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	present · progressive	I	a great work			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
4	not come down	can	I			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cease	should	the work				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	leave	present	I	work			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	come down	infinitive	the work not said here		you	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location

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

וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֨ה עֲלֵיהֶ֤ם מַלְאָכִים֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר מְלָאכָ֤ה גְדוֹלָה֙ אֲנִ֣י עֹשֶׂ֔ה וְלֹ֥א אוּכַ֖ל לָרֶ֑דֶת לָ֣מָּה תִשְׁבַּ֤ת הַמְּלָאכָה֙ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר אַרְפֶּ֔הָ וְיָרַדְתִּ֖י אֲלֵיכֶֽם׃

Nehemiah 6:3: 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:124 of Mova's parse database.

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