Nehemiah 6:12 · JPS 1917
And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me, whereas Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Who acts: I, God, Tobiah · What happens: discern, not send, pronounce, hire · To what, where: man, prophecy
This is Nehemiah 6:12 · 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, God, Tobiah), 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 discerned | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 discerned | nsubj |
| 3 | discerned | discern | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lo | punct |
| 7 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 12 sent | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lo | punct |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 sent | advmod |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 discerned | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 pronounced | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 pronounced | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pronounced | nsubj |
| 17 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discerned | advcl |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 prophecy | det |
| 19 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pronounced | obj |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 pronounced | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hired | punct |
| 23 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 28 hired | mark |
| 24 | Tobiah | Tobiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 hired | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Sanballat | cc |
| 26 | Sanballat | Sanballat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tobiah | conj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 hired | aux |
| 28 | hired | hire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 pronounced | advcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hired | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discerned | 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 | discern | past | I | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not send | past · perfect | God | man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pronounce | past | God | this prophecy | against me | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophecy=Theme | |||
| 4 | hire | past · perfect | Tobiah and Sanballat | man | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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
וָאַכִּ֕ירָה וְהִנֵּ֥ה לֹֽא־אֱלֹהִ֖ים שְׁלָח֑וֹ כִּ֤י הַנְּבוּאָה֙ דִּבֶּ֣ר עָלַ֔י וְטוֹבִיָּ֥ה וְסַנְבַלַּ֖ט שְׂכָרֽוֹ׃
Nehemiah 6:12: 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:135 of Mova's parse database.
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