Nehemiah 1:2 · JPS 1917

that Hanani, one of my brethren, came out of Judah, he and certain men; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, that were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

Who acts: Hanani, I, Jews · What happens: come out, ask, escape, leave · To what, where: Judah, men, that

This is Nehemiah 1:2 · 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 (Hanani, I, Jews), 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	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
2	Hanani	Hanani	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Hanani	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 brethren	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brethren	nmod:poss
7	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hanani	punct
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	12 Judah	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Judah	case
12	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 he	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Hanani	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 men	cc
16	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 he	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 asked	nsubj
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	obj
23	concerning	concern	ADP	_	25 Jews	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Jews	det
25	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 asked	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 escaped	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 escaped	aux
28	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 Jews	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 left	nsubj:pass
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 left	aux:pass
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 escaped	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 captivity	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 captivity	det
35	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Jerusalem	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Jerusalem	cc
38	concerning	concern	ADP	_	39 Jerusalem	case
39	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Jews	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come out	past	Hanani	Judah			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient judah=Result
2	ask speech: ask	past	I		men = man	concern the Jews and Jerusalem	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	escape	past · perfect	the Jews and Jerusalem				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	past · passive		that		of the captivity	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of captivity=Destination

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

וַיָּבֹ֨א חֲנָ֜נִי אֶחָ֧ד מֵאַחַ֛י ה֥וּא וַאֲנָשִׁ֖ים מִֽיהוּדָ֑ה וָאֶשְׁאָלֵ֞ם עַל־הַיְּהוּדִ֧ים הַפְּלֵיטָ֛ה אֲשֶֽׁר־נִשְׁאֲר֥וּ מִן־הַשֶּׁ֖בִי וְעַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

Nehemiah 1:2: 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:2 of Mova's parse database.

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