Nehemiah 6:13 · JPS 1917

For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might taunt me.

Who acts: I, Sanballat · What happens: hire, be, do, sin, have, taunt · To what, where: Tobiah, matter, me

This is Nehemiah 6:13 · 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, Sanballat), 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	ADP	_	3 cause	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cause	det
3	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hired	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hired	aux:pass
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hired	nsubj:pass
6	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 afraid	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 afraid	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 afraid	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 afraid	cop
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hired	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 do	cc
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 afraid	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	15 do	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sin	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sin	cc
19	sin	sin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 afraid	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 afraid	conj
26	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 report	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 report	det
29	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 report	amod
30	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 matter	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 taunt	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 taunt	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 taunt	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 taunt	aux
35	taunt	taunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 have	advcl
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 taunt	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hired	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hire	past · passive		Tobiah	for this cause	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for cause=Beneficiary
2	is	should	I		afraid property	tree rules
3	do	infinitive	I not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sin	infinitive	I not said here			vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	might	Sanballat	matter	for a evil report	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Patient
6	taunt	might	Sanballat	me		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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

לְמַ֤עַן שָׂכוּר֙ ה֔וּא לְמַֽעַן־אִירָ֥א וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה־כֵּ֖ן וְחָטָ֑אתִי וְהָיָ֤ה לָהֶם֙ לְשֵׁ֣ם רָ֔ע לְמַ֖עַן יְחָֽרְפֽוּנִי׃פ

Nehemiah 6:13: 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:136 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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