Nehemiah 8:12 · JPS 1917

And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

Who acts: people · What happens: go, eat, drink, send, make, understand · To what, where: way, portions, great mirth, words

This is Nehemiah 8:12 · 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	_	5 went	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 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drink	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drink	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 drink	mark
13	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 send	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 send	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 send	mark
17	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	conj
18	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 send	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 make	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 make	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	conj
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mirth	amod
24	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 understood	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 understood	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 understood	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 understood	aux
29	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 went	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 words	det
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 understood	obj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 declared	nsubj:pass
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 declared	aux:pass
34	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 words	acl:relcl
35	unto	unto	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 declared	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	all people	people's way		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	all people not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	to-infinitive	all people not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	send	to-infinitive	all people not said here	portions		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive	all people not said here	great mirth		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mirth=Product
6	understand	past · perfect	people	the words		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
7	declare speech: other	past · passive		the words	unto people	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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

וַיֵּלְכ֨וּ כָל־הָעָ֜ם לֶאֱכֹ֤ל וְלִשְׁתּוֹת֙ וּלְשַׁלַּ֣ח מָנ֔וֹת וְלַעֲשׂ֖וֹת שִׂמְחָ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֑ה כִּ֤י הֵבִ֙ינוּ֙ בַּדְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הוֹדִ֖יעוּ לָהֶֽם׃ס

Nehemiah 8:12: 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:233 of Mova's parse database.

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