Nehemiah 2:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters.
Who acts: I, king · What happens: come, give, letter · To what, where: governors, letters
This is Nehemiah 2:9 · 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 (I, king), 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 | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 governors | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 governors | det |
| 6 | governors | governor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 9 River | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 River | det |
| 9 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 governors | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 letters | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | I | the governors beyond the River | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to governor=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | I not said here | the king's letters | governors = governor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient letter=Theme | |||
| 3 | letter | the king | nom letter «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
וָֽאָב֗וֹא אֶֽל־פַּֽחֲווֹת֙עֵ֣בֶר הַנָּהָ֔ר וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה לָהֶ֔ם אֵ֖ת אִגְּר֣וֹת הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח עִמִּי֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ שָׂ֥רֵי חַ֖יִל וּפָרָשִֽׁים׃פ
Nehemiah 2:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters.
- Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NEH:21 of Mova's parse database.
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