Nehemiah 8:13 · JPS 1917

And on the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers' houses of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words of the Law.

What happens: gather, give, word · To what, where: heads, attention, words, Law

This is Nehemiah 8:13 · 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: 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	_	7 gathered	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 day	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gathered	obl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gathered	aux:pass
7	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 gathered	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heads	det
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gathered	nsubj:pass
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 houses	case
12	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 houses	nmod:poss
13	'	's	PART	_	12 fathers	case
14	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heads	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 people	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 people	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 houses	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 priests	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 priests	det
21	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heads	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Levites	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Levites	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Levites	det
25	Levites	levite	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 heads	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Ezra	punct
27	unto	unto	ADP	_	28 Ezra	case
28	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 give	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 scribe	det
30	scribe	scribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Ezra	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
32	even	even	ADV	_	34 give	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 give	mark
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gathered	advcl
35	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 words	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 words	det
38	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 give	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 Law	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Law	det
41	Law	Law	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 words	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past · passive	the heads of fathers's houses of all people and the priests and the Levites		day	together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	give	to-infinitive	attention	the words of the Law		unto Ezra	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to word=Recipient
3	word		the Law				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

וּבַיּ֣וֹם הַשֵּׁנִ֡י נֶאֶסְפוּ֩ רָאשֵׁ֨י הָאָב֜וֹת לְכָל־הָעָ֗ם הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙ וְהַלְוִיִּ֔ם אֶל־עֶזְרָ֖א הַסֹּפֵ֑ר וּלְהַשְׂכִּ֖יל אֶל־דִּבְרֵ֥י הַתּוֹרָֽה׃

Nehemiah 8:13: 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:234 of Mova's parse database.

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