Nehemiah 8:3 · JPS 1917

And he read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the Law.

Who acts: Ezra, broad place, ears · What happens: read, be, understand · To what, where: presence

This is Nehemiah 8:3 · 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, broad place, ears), 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	_	3 read	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	therein	therein	ADV	_	3 read	advmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	8 place	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 gate	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gate	cop
11	before	before	ADP	_	14 gate	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gate	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gate	compound
14	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 morning	case
16	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 morning	amod
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl
18	until	until	ADP	_	19 midday	case
19	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 presence	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 presence	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 presence	det
23	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 men	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 men	det
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 presence	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 women	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 women	det
29	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 men	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 those	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 those	cc
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 those	case
33	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 women	conj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 understand	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 understand	aux
36	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 those	acl:relcl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 attentive	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 attentive	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ears	det
40	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 attentive	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 people	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 people	det:predet
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 people	det
44	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 ears	nmod
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 attentive	cop
46	attentive	attentive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 read	conj
47	unto	unto	ADP	_	49 book	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 book	det
49	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 attentive	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 Law	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Law	det
52	Law	Law	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 book	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	Ezra	the presence of the men and the women	before the broad place; until midday; morning	therein property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the broad place		before the water gate		tree rules
3	understand	could					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the ears of all people			unto the book of the Law; attentive property	tree rules

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

וַיִּקְרָא־בוֹ֩ לִפְנֵ֨י הָרְח֜וֹב אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ לִפְנֵ֣י שַֽׁעַר־הַמַּ֗יִם מִן־הָאוֹר֙ עַד־מַחֲצִ֣ית הַיּ֔וֹם נֶ֛גֶד הָאֲנָשִׁ֥ים וְהַנָּשִׁ֖ים וְהַמְּבִינִ֑ים וְאָזְנֵ֥י כָל־הָעָ֖ם אֶל־סֵ֥פֶר הַתּוֹרָֽה׃

Nehemiah 8:3: 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:223 of Mova's parse database.

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