Nehemiah 6:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And I said: 'Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, could go into the temple and live?
Who acts: I, man · What happens: say, flee, be, go, live · To what, where: temple · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 6:11 · 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 (I, man), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Should | punct |
| 6 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 flee | aux |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 man | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flee | nsubj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 I | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nmod |
| 12 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 flee | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 there | cc |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 there | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 there | cop |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 such | punct |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 such | cop |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 27 go | advcl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 I | fixed |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 such | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 I | punct |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 go | aux |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 there | acl:relcl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 temple | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 temple | det |
| 30 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 go | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 live | cc |
| 32 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 go | conj |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | flee | should | such man I | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | gerund | I obl; such property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | could | the temple | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into temple=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | live | infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
וָאֹמְרָ֗ה הַאִ֤ישׁ כָּמ֙וֹנִי֙ יִבְרָ֔ח וּמִ֥י כָמ֛וֹנִי אֲשֶׁר־יָב֥וֹא אֶל־הַהֵיכָ֖ל וָחָ֑י לֹ֖א אָבֽוֹא׃
Nehemiah 6:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And I said: 'Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, could go into the temple and live?
- I will not go in.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NEH:133 of Mova's parse database.
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