Nehemiah 2:6 · JPS 1917

And the king said unto me, the queen also sitting by him: 'For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return?' So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

Who acts: king, queen, journey, thou, I, thy · What happens: say, sit, be, return, please, send · To what, where: king, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 2:6 · 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, queen, journey, thou), 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	_	4 said	cc
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	_	11 sitting	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	nsubj
10	also	also	ADV	_	11 sitting	advmod
11	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sitting	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 long	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 long	punct
16	For	for	ADP	_	18 long	case
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	parataxis
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 long	aux
20	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 journey	nmod:poss
21	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 long	nsubj
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 long	cop
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 long	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 return	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 return	advmod
26	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	28 return	aux
27	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 return	nsubj
28	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 long	conj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 return	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 return	punct
31	So	so	ADV	_	33 pleased	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pleased	nsubj
33	pleased	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pleased	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 send	mark
37	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 pleased	xcomp
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 send	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 set	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 set	cc
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 set	nsubj
42	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 pleased	conj
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 set	iobj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 time	det
45	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 set	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king				unto me	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	sit	gerund	the queen				by king	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location
3	is	shall	thy journey				long property	tree rules
4	return	future	thou					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	please	past	journey	the king				tree rules
6	send	to-infinitive	journey not said here	me				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	set	past	I		king	time		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result
8	journey		thy					nom journey «act 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

וַיֹּאמֶר֩ לִ֨י הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ וְהַשֵּׁגַ֣ל ׀ יוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת אֶצְל֗וֹ עַד־מָתַ֛י יִהְיֶ֥ה מַֽהֲלָכֲךָ֖ וּמָתַ֣י תָּשׁ֑וּב וַיִּיטַ֤ב לִפְנֵֽי־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ וַיִּשְׁלָחֵ֔נִי וָֽאֶתְּנָ֥ה ל֖וֹ זְמָֽן׃

Nehemiah 2:6: 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:18 of Mova's parse database.

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