Nehemiah 6:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And thou hast also appointed prophets to proclaim of thee at Jerusalem, saying: There is a king in Judah; and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words.
Who acts: thou, king · What happens: appoint, proclaim, say, be, report, accord · To what, where: prophets, Jerusalem, manner, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 6:7 · 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 (thou, king), 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 | _ | 5 appointed | cc |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 appointed | nsubj |
| 3 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 appointed | aux |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 appointed | advmod |
| 5 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | prophets | prophet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appointed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 proclaim | mark |
| 8 | proclaim | proclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 appointed | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thee | case |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 proclaim | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Jerusalem | case |
| 12 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 proclaim | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 appointed | advcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 16 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Judah | case |
| 21 | Judah | Judah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 king | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 reported | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 reported | cc |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 reported | advmod |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 reported | aux |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 reported | aux:pass |
| 28 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 appointed | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 king | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reported | obl |
| 32 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 words | case |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 according | fixed |
| 34 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 35 words | det |
| 35 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 reported | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | present · perfect | thou | prophets | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | proclaim | to-infinitive | thou not said here | Jerusalem | of thee | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | thou not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be | present | a king in Judah | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | report | shall · passive | manner | the king | now | accord this words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to king=Recipient | ||
| 6 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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
וְגַם־נְבִיאִ֡ים הֶעֱמַ֣דְתָּ לִקְרֹא֩ עָלֶ֨יךָ בִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֜ם לֵאמֹ֗ר מֶ֚לֶךְ בִּֽיהוּדָ֔ה וְעַתָּה֙ יִשָּׁמַ֣ע לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כַּדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה וְעַתָּ֣ה לְכָ֔ה וְנִֽוָּעֲצָ֖ה יַחְדָּֽו׃ס
Nehemiah 6:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And thou hast also appointed prophets to proclaim of thee at Jerusalem, saying: There is a king in Judah; and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words.
- Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NEH:128 of Mova's parse database.
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