Nehemiah 8:7 · JPS 1917
Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, even the Levites, caused the people to understand the Law; and the people stood in their place.
Who acts: Jeshua, people · What happens: cause, understand, stand · To what, where: people, Law, place
This is Nehemiah 8:7 · 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 (Jeshua, 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 2 Jeshua | advmod |
| 2 | Jeshua | Jeshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bani | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Bani | cc |
| 5 | Bani | Bani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sherebiah | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Sherebiah | cc |
| 8 | Sherebiah | Sherebiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Jamin | punct |
| 10 | Jamin | Jamin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Akkub | punct |
| 12 | Akkub | Akkub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Shabbethai | punct |
| 14 | Shabbethai | Shabbethai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hodiah | punct |
| 16 | Hodiah | Hodiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Maaseiah | punct |
| 18 | Maaseiah | Maaseiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kelita | punct |
| 20 | Kelita | Kelita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Azariah | punct |
| 22 | Azariah | Azariah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Jozabad | punct |
| 24 | Jozabad | Jozabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Hanan | punct |
| 26 | Hanan | Hanan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Pelaiah | punct |
| 28 | Pelaiah | Pelaiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Levites | punct |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 Levites | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Levites | det |
| 32 | Levites | Levites | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Jeshua | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 caused | punct |
| 34 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 people | det |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 caused | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 understand | mark |
| 38 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 caused | xcomp |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Law | det |
| 40 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 understand | obj |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 stood | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 stood | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 people | det |
| 44 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 stood | nsubj |
| 45 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 caused | conj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 place | case |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 place | nmod:poss |
| 48 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 stood | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 caused | 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 | cause | past | Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin and Akkub and Shabbethai and Hodiah and Maaseiah and Kelita and Azariah and Jozabad and Hanan and Pelaiah and the Levites | the people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | the people not said here | the Law | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the people | people's place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=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
וְיֵשׁ֡וּעַ וּבָנִ֡י וְשֵׁרֵ֥בְיָ֣ה ׀ יָמִ֡ין עַקּ֡וּב שַׁבְּתַ֣י ׀ הֽוֹדִיָּ֡ה מַעֲשֵׂיָ֡ה קְלִיטָ֣א עֲזַרְיָה֩ יוֹזָבָ֨ד חָנָ֤ן פְּלָאיָה֙ וְהַלְוִיִּ֔ם מְבִינִ֥ים אֶת־הָעָ֖ם לַתּוֹרָ֑ה וְהָעָ֖ם עַל־עָמְדָֽם׃
Nehemiah 8:7: 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:228 of Mova's parse database.
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