Nehemiah 9:3 · JPS 1917

And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the Law of the LORD their God a fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and prostrated themselves before the LORD their God.

Who acts: children · What happens: stand up, read, confess, prostrate · To what, where: place, fourth part, book, children

This is Nehemiah 9:3 · 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 (children), 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 stood	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stood	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 place	nmod:poss
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 read	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 read	cc
10	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 book	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 book	det
13	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 read	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Law	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Law	det
16	Law	Law	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 book	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 LORD	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 LORD	det
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Law	nmod
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 God	nmod:poss
21	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 LORD	appos
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 part	det
23	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 part	amod
24	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 read	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 day	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 part	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 confessed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 confessed	cc
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 part	det
31	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 part	amod
32	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 confessed	obj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 confessed	nsubj
34	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 read	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 prostrated	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 prostrated	cc
37	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 confessed	conj
38	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 prostrated	obj
39	before	before	ADP	_	41 LORD	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 LORD	det
41	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 prostrated	obl
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 God	nmod:poss
43	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 LORD	appos
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand up	past	children = child		children's place		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
2	read	past	children = child not said here	a fourth part of the day	the book of the Law of the LORD		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic
3	confess	past	children = child	another fourth part			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic
4	prostrate	past	children = child not said here	children = child		before the LORD	tree rules

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

וַיָּק֙וּמוּ֙ עַל־עָמְדָ֔ם וַֽיִּקְרְא֗וּ בְּסֵ֨פֶר תּוֹרַ֧ת יְהוָ֛ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֖ם רְבִעִ֣ית הַיּ֑וֹם וּרְבִעִית֙ מִתְוַדִּ֣ים וּמִֽשְׁתַּחֲוִ֔ים לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃פ

Nehemiah 9:3: 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:244 of Mova's parse database.

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