Nehemiah 2:10 · JPS 1917

And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, for that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

Who acts: Sanballat, Ammonite, man · What happens: hear, grieve, come, seek · To what, where: Sanballat, welfare

This is Nehemiah 2:10 · 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 (Sanballat, Ammonite, man), 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	_	20 grieved	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 heard	mark
3	Sanballat	Sanballat	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 heard	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Horonite	det
5	Horonite	Horonite	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sanballat	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Tobiah	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Tobiah	cc
8	Tobiah	Tobiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sanballat	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servant	det
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Tobiah	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Ammonite	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ammonite	det
13	Ammonite	Ammonite	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Tobiah	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Sanballat	punct
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grieved	advcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grieved	nsubj
20	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grieved	obj
22	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	20 grieved	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 that	fixed
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 come	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 come	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 grieved	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	nsubj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 seek	mark
32	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 man	acl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 welfare	det
34	welfare	welfare	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seek	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 children	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 children	det
37	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 welfare	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Israel	case
39	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 children	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Sanballat and Tobiah			of Ammonite	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
2	grieve	past	Ammonite	Sanballat		exceedingly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	come	past · passive	a man		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seek	to-infinitive	a man not said here	the welfare of the children of Israel			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent welfare=Theme

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

וַיִּשְׁמַ֞ע סַנְבַלַּ֣ט הַחֹרֹנִ֗י וְטֽוֹבִיָּה֙ הָעֶ֣בֶד הָֽעַמֹּנִ֔י וַיֵּ֥רַע לָהֶ֖ם רָעָ֣ה גְדֹלָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֥א אָדָ֔ם לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ טוֹבָ֖ה לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Nehemiah 2:10: 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:23 of Mova's parse database.

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