Nehemiah 2:7 · JPS 1917

Moreover I said unto the king: 'If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through till I come unto Judah;

Who acts: I, journey, letters, me · What happens: say, please, let, give, pass through, come · To what, where: king, letters, me, governors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 2:7 · 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, journey, letters, me), 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	_	3 said	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 please	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 please	nsubj
11	please	please	VERB	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	15 let	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 please	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 please	punct
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
16	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 let	obj
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 given	aux:pass
18	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 let	xcomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 given	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 governors	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 governors	det
22	governors	governor	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 given	obl
23	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	25 River	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 River	det
25	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 governors	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 let	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 let	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 let	aux
30	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 given	advcl
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 let	obj
32	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 let	xcomp
33	through	through	ADP	_	32 pass	compound:prt
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 come	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 come	nsubj
36	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 pass	advcl
37	unto	unto	ADP	_	38 Judah	case
38	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I			unto the king; moreover property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	please a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	journey	the king			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer
3	let	infinitive		letters			tree rules
4	give	infinitive · passive	letters not said here	me	the governors beyond the River		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: i=Theme to governor=Recipient
5	let	may	letters = letter	me			tree rules
6	pass through	infinitive	me not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come	present	I			unto Judah	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

וָאוֹמַר֮ לַמֶּלֶךְ֒ אִם־עַל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ ט֔וֹב אִגְּרוֹת֙ יִתְּנוּ־לִ֔י עַֽל־פַּחֲו֖וֹת עֵ֣בֶר הַנָּהָ֑ר אֲשֶׁר֙ יַעֲבִיר֔וּנִי עַ֥ד אֲשֶׁר־אָב֖וֹא אֶל־יְהוּדָֽה׃

Nehemiah 2:7: 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:19 of Mova's parse database.

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