Nehemiah 8:2 · JPS 1917

And Ezra the priest brought the Law before the congregation, both men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

Who acts: Ezra · What happens: bring, hear · To what, where: Law, congregation

This is Nehemiah 8:2 · 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 (Ezra), 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	_	5 brought	cc
2	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brought	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 priest	det
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ezra	appos
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Law	det
7	Law	Law	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obj
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 congregation	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 congregation	det
10	congregation	congregation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 men	punct
12	both	both	CCONJ	_	13 men	cc:preconj
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 congregation	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 women	cc
15	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 men	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 all	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 all	cc
18	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	13 men	conj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 hear	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	aux
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 all	acl:relcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 understanding	case
23	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hear	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 day	punct
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 day	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 day	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 day	amod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hear	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 month	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 month	det
31	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 month	amod
32	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 day	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	Ezra	the Law		the congregation both men and women			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent law=Theme before congregation=Destination
2	hear	could					day	with understanding	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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

וַיָּבִ֣יא עֶזְרָ֣א הַ֠כֹּהֵן אֶֽת־הַתּוֹרָ֞ה לִפְנֵ֤י הַקָּהָל֙ מֵאִ֣ישׁ וְעַד־אִשָּׁ֔ה וְכֹ֖ל מֵבִ֣ין לִשְׁמֹ֑עַ בְּי֥וֹם אֶחָ֖ד לַחֹ֥דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִֽי׃

Nehemiah 8:2: 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:222 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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