Nehemiah 8:16 · JPS 1917

So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad place of the water gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim.

Who acts: people · What happens: go, bring, make · To what, where: people, booths

This is Nehemiah 8:16 · 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 brought	cc
8	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 made	iobj
14	booths	booth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obl:unmarked
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 roof	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 roof	det
20	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 house	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 house	nmod:poss
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roof	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 courts	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 courts	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 courts	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 courts	nmod:poss
28	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 roof	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 courts	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 courts	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 courts	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 courts	det
33	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 roof	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 house	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 house	det
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 courts	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 God	case
38	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 house	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 place	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 place	cc
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 place	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 place	det
43	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 place	amod
44	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roof	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 gate	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 gate	det
47	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 gate	compound
48	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 place	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 place	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 place	cc
51	in	in	ADP	_	54 place	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 place	det
53	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 place	amod
54	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roof	conj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 gate	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 gate	det
57	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 place	nmod
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 Ephraim	case
59	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 gate	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the people			forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	past	the people not said here	people			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	make	past	the people not said here	booths	people	upon the roof of Jerusalem's house and booths's courts and the courts of the house of God and the broad place of the water gate and the broad place of the gate of Ephraim; every one obl:unmarked	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Beneficiary booth=Product

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

וַיֵּצְא֣וּ הָעָם֮ וַיָּבִיאוּ֒ וַיַּעֲשׂוּ֩ לָהֶ֨ם סֻכּ֜וֹת אִ֤ישׁ עַל־גַּגּוֹ֙ וּבְחַצְרֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם וּבְחַצְר֖וֹת בֵּ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וּבִרְחוֹב֙ שַׁ֣עַר הַמַּ֔יִם וּבִרְח֖וֹב שַׁ֥עַר אֶפְרָֽיִם׃

Nehemiah 8:16: 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:237 of Mova's parse database.

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