Nehemiah 8:5 · JPS 1917

And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people — for he was above all the people — and when he opened it, all the people stood up.

Who acts: Ezra, people · What happens: open, be, stand up, sight · To what, where: book, sight, people

This is Nehemiah 8:5 · 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, people), 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 opened	cc
2	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sight	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sight	det
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 people	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 people	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sight	nmod
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 people	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 people	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 people	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 people	cop
17	above	above	ADP	_	20 people	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 people	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 opened	advcl
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 stood	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stood	cc
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 opened	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 opened	nsubj
25	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 stood	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 opened	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 opened	punct
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 people	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 people	det
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 stood	nsubj
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 stood	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	Ezra	the book	the sight of all people		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent book=Theme in sight=Location
2	is	past	Ezra			above all people	tree rules
3	open	past	Ezra	book			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	stand up	past	all people				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sight			all people			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

וַיִּפְתַּ֨ח עֶזְרָ֤א הַסֵּ֙פֶר֙ לְעֵינֵ֣י כָל־הָעָ֔ם כִּֽי־מֵעַ֥ל כָּל־הָעָ֖ם הָיָ֑ה וּכְפִתְח֖וֹ עָֽמְד֥וּ כָל־הָעָֽם׃

Nehemiah 8:5: 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:225 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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