Nehemiah 2:4 · JPS 1917
Then the king said unto me: 'For what dost thou make request?' So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Who acts: king, thou, I · What happens: say, make, pray · To what, where: request · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 2:4 · 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 (king, thou, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 9 | For | for | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 make | obl |
| 11 | dost | do | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 make | nsubj |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 17 | So | so | ADV | _ | 19 prayed | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 prayed | nsubj |
| 19 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 God | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 God | det |
| 22 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 prayed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 heaven | case |
| 24 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 God | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-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 | the king | then | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | do-support | thou | request | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent request=Product for what=Asset | ||||
| 3 | pray | past | I | to the God of heaven | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לִי֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ עַל־מַה־זֶּ֖ה אַתָּ֣ה מְבַקֵּ֑שׁ וָֽאֶתְפַּלֵּ֔ל אֶל־אֱלֹהֵ֖י הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
Nehemiah 2:4: 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:16 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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