Nehemiah 8:8 · JPS 1917

And they read in the book, in the Law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

Who acts: people · What happens: read, give, cause, understand · To what, where: book, sense, people, reading

This is Nehemiah 8:8 · 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 (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 read	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 book	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Law	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Law	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Law	det
10	Law	Law	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 God	case
12	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Law	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 distinctly	punct
14	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	3 read	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sense	det
20	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 caused	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 caused	cc
23	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gave	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 caused	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 understand	mark
26	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 caused	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 reading	det
28	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 understand	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 read	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	read	past	people		the book	in the Law of God; distinctly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	people	the sense			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Theme
3	cause	past	people not said here	people			tree rules
4	understand	to-infinitive	people not said here	the reading			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reading=Stimulus

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

וַֽיִּקְרְא֥וּ בַסֵּ֛פֶר בְּתוֹרַ֥ת הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים מְפֹרָ֑שׁ וְשׂ֣וֹם שֶׂ֔כֶל וַיָּבִ֖ינוּ בַּמִּקְרָֽא׃ס

Nehemiah 8:8: 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:229 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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