Nehemiah 6:4 · JPS 1917
And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Who acts: messengers, I · What happens: send, answer · To what, where: messengers
This is Nehemiah 6:4 · 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 (messengers, 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 sent | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obl |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 sort | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sort | det |
| 10 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 answered | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | obj |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 manner | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 manner | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 manner | amod |
| 19 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | 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 | send | past | messengers = messenger | after this sort; time | unto me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | I | messengers = messenger | after the same manner | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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
וַיִּשְׁלְח֥וּ אֵלַ֛י כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּ֖ה אַרְבַּ֣ע פְּעָמִ֑ים וָאָשִׁ֥יב אוֹתָ֖ם כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃ס
Nehemiah 6:4: 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:125 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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