Nehemiah 6:17 · JPS 1917

Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

Who acts: nobles, letters · What happens: send, come, letter · To what, where: many letters, Tobiah

This is Nehemiah 6:17 · 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 (nobles, letters), 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	Moreover	moreover	ADV	_	9 sent	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 days	det
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sent	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nobles	det
6	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sent	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Judah	case
8	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nobles	nmod
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 letters	amod
11	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sent	obj
12	unto	unto	ADP	_	13 Tobiah	case
13	Tobiah	Tobiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 letters	det
17	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 came	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Tobiah	case
19	Tobiah	Tobiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 letters	nmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	conj
21	unto	unto	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the nobles of Judah	many letters	day	unto Tobiah; moreover property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
2	come	past	the letters of Tobiah			unto nobles = noble	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	letter			Tobiah			nom letter «communication transitive»: of=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

גַּ֣ם ׀ בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֗ם מַרְבִּ֞ים חֹרֵ֤י יְהוּדָה֙ אִגְּרֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם הוֹלְכ֖וֹת עַל־טוֹבִיָּ֑ה וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר לְטוֹבִיָּ֖ה בָּא֥וֹת אֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

Nehemiah 6:17: 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:140 of Mova's parse database.

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