Nehemiah 6:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him.
Who acts: nations, my · What happens: speak, report, word · To what, where: words, Judah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 6:19 · 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 (nations, my), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 deeds | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deeds | amod |
| 7 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spoke | obl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reported | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reported | cc |
| 12 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 words | nmod:poss |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reported | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reported | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | nations = nation | before me | of Judah's good deeds | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | report | past | nations = nation not said here | my words | Judah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 טוֹבֹתָ֗יו הָי֤וּ אֹמְרִים֙ לְפָנַ֔י וּדְבָרַ֕י הָי֥וּ מוֹצִיאִ֖ים ל֑וֹ אִגְּר֛וֹת שָׁלַ֥ח טוֹבִיָּ֖ה לְיָֽרְאֵֽנִי׃
Nehemiah 6:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him.
- And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NEH:142 of Mova's parse database.
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