Nehemiah 8:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And all the people answered: 'Amen, Amen', with the lifting up of their hands; and they bowed their heads, and fell down before the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Who acts: people, hands · What happens: answer, bow, fall down, lift · To what, where: heads
This is Nehemiah 8:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (people, hands), 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 answered | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 people | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Amen | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Amen | punct |
| 8 | Amen | amen | INTJ | _ | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Amen | punct |
| 10 | Amen | amen | INTJ | _ | 8 Amen | conj |
| 11 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 8 Amen | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 lifting | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lifting | det |
| 14 | lifting | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 lifting | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lifting | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 bowed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bowed | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bowed | nsubj |
| 22 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heads | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bowed | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fell | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fell | cc |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 bowed | conj |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 fell | advmod |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 LORD | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 LORD | det |
| 31 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 faces | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 faces | nmod:poss |
| 34 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fell | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 ground | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ground | det |
| 37 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | all people | with the lifting of people's hands | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bow | past | people | people's heads | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fall down | past | people not said here | before the LORD | with people's faces; to the ground; down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before lord=Location | |||
| 4 | lift | people's hands | nom lift «act intransitive»: of=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
וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ עֶזְרָ֔א אֶת־יְהוָ֥ה הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים הַגָּד֑וֹל וַיַּֽעֲנ֨וּ כָל־הָעָ֜ם אָמֵ֤ן ׀ אָמֵן֙ בְּמֹ֣עַל יְדֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּקְּד֧וּ וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲוֻּ֛ לַיהוָ֖ה אַפַּ֥יִם אָֽרְצָה׃
Nehemiah 8:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God.
- And all the people answered: 'Amen, Amen', with the lifting up of their hands; and they bowed their heads, and fell down before the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NEH:227 of Mova's parse database.
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