Nehemiah 8:4 · JPS 1917

And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

Who acts: Ezra, ears, Mattithiah · What happens: stand, make · To what, where: pulpit, right hand

This is Nehemiah 8:4 · 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, ears, Mattithiah), 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 stood	cc
2	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scribe	det
4	scribe	scribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ezra	appos
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 pulpit	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pulpit	det
8	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 wood	case
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulpit	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 made	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	aux
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 pulpit	acl:relcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 purpose	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 purpose	det
18	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stood	cc
21	beside	beside	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stood	obl
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
24	Mattithiah	Mattithiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 stood	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Shema	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Shema	cc
27	Shema	Shema	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Mattithiah	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Anaiah	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Anaiah	cc
30	Anaiah	Anaiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Mattithiah	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Uriah	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Uriah	cc
33	Uriah	Uriah	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Mattithiah	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Hilkiah	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Hilkiah	cc
36	Hilkiah	Hilkiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Mattithiah	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Maaseiah	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Maaseiah	cc
39	Maaseiah	Maaseiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Mattithiah	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 hand	punct
41	on	on	ADP	_	44 hand	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 hand	nmod:poss
43	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 hand	amod
44	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 Pedaiah	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 Pedaiah	cc
47	on	on	ADP	_	50 hand	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 hand	nmod:poss
49	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 hand	amod
50	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 Pedaiah	orphan
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 Pedaiah	punct
52	Pedaiah	Pedaiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 stood	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 Mishael	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 Mishael	cc
55	Mishael	Mishael	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Pedaiah	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 Malchijah	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 Malchijah	cc
58	Malchijah	Malchijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Pedaiah	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 Hashum	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 Hashum	cc
61	Hashum	Hashum	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Pedaiah	conj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 Hashbaddanah	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 Hashbaddanah	cc
64	Hashbaddanah	Hashbaddanah	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Pedaiah	conj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 Zechariah	punct
66	Zechariah	Zechariah	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Pedaiah	conj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 Meshullam	punct
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 Meshullam	cc
69	Meshullam	Meshullam	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Pedaiah	conj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Ezra		a pulpit of wood		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon pulpit=Location
2	make	past · perfect	ears = ear	a pulpit of wood		for the purpose	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent which=Product for purpose=Asset
3	stand	past	Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah		Ezra's right hand	beside Ezra	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location

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

וַֽיַּעֲמֹ֞ד עֶזְרָ֣א הַסֹּפֵ֗ר עַֽל־מִגְדַּל־עֵץ֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשׂ֣וּ לַדָּבָר֒ וַיַּֽעֲמֹ֣ד אֶצְל֡וֹ מַתִּתְיָ֡ה וְשֶׁ֡מַע וַ֠עֲנָיָה וְאוּרִיָּ֧ה וְחִלְקִיָּ֛ה וּמַעֲשֵׂיָ֖ה עַל־יְמִינ֑וֹ וּמִשְּׂמֹאל֗וֹ פְּ֠דָיָה וּמִֽישָׁאֵ֧ל וּמַלְכִּיָּ֛ה וְחָשֻׁ֥ם וְחַשְׁבַּדָּ֖נָה זְכַרְיָ֥ה מְשֻׁלָּֽם׃פ

Nehemiah 8:4: 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:224 of Mova's parse database.

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