Nehemiah 6:9 · JPS 1917

For they all would have us afraid, saying: 'Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.' But now, strengthen Thou my hands.

Who acts: things, Thou · What happens: have, say, weaken, not do, strengthen · To what, where: us, hands, work, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 6:9 · 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 (things, Thou), 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	For	for	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 they	det
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	obj
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 have	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 have	advcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 weakened	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 weakened	punct
12	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 weakened	nsubj:pass
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 weakened	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 weakened	aux:pass
16	weakened	weaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 saying	ccomp
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 work	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 work	det
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 weakened	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 done	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 done	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 done	nsubj:pass
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 done	aux:pass
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 done	advmod
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 weakened	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 weakened	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 weakened	punct
28	But	but	CCONJ	_	31 strengthen	cc
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 strengthen	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 strengthen	punct
31	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
32	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 strengthen	nsubj
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hands	nmod:poss
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 strengthen	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 strengthen	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	things = thing	us			afraid property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	things = thing not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	weaken	shall · passive		things's hands	the work			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	not do	infinitive · passive		hand				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	strengthen	infinitive	Thou	my hands		now		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=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

כִּ֣י כֻלָּ֗ם מְיָֽרְאִ֤ים אוֹתָ֙נוּ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יִרְפּ֧וּ יְדֵיהֶ֛ם מִן־הַמְּלָאכָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א תֵעָשֶׂ֑ה וְעַתָּ֖ה חַזֵּ֥ק אֶת־יָדָֽי׃

Nehemiah 6:9: 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:131 of Mova's parse database.

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