Nehemiah 9:4 · JPS 1917
Then stood up upon the platform of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
Who acts: Jeshua · What happens: stand up, cry · To what, where: platform
This is Nehemiah 9:4 · 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 (Jeshua), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 stood | advmod |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 stood | compound:prt |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 platform | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 platform | det |
| 6 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Levites | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Levites | det |
| 9 | Levites | Levite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 platform | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jeshua | punct |
| 11 | Jeshua | Jeshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Bani | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Bani | cc |
| 14 | Bani | Bani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jeshua | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kadmiel | punct |
| 16 | Kadmiel | Kadmiel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jeshua | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Shebaniah | punct |
| 18 | Shebaniah | Shebaniah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jeshua | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Bunni | punct |
| 20 | Bunni | Bunni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jeshua | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Sherebiah | punct |
| 22 | Sherebiah | Sherebiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jeshua | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Bani | punct |
| 24 | Bani | Bani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jeshua | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Chenani | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Chenani | cc |
| 27 | Chenani | Chenani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jeshua | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cried | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cried | cc |
| 30 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 voice | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 voice | det |
| 33 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 voice | amod |
| 34 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cried | obl |
| 35 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 37 LORD | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 LORD | det |
| 37 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 cried | obl |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 God | nmod:poss |
| 39 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 LORD | appos |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | Jeshua and Bani and Kadmiel and Shebaniah and Bunni and Sherebiah and Bani and Chenani | the platform of the Levites | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon platform=Location | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Jeshua and Bani and Kadmiel and Shebaniah and Bunni and Sherebiah and Bani and Chenani not said here | with a loud voice; unto the LORD | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=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
וַיָּ֜קָם עַֽל־מַֽעֲלֵ֣ה הַלְוִיִּ֗ם יֵשׁ֨וּעַ וּבָנִ֜י קַדְמִיאֵ֧ל שְׁבַנְיָ֛ה בֻּנִּ֥י שֵׁרֵבְיָ֖ה בָּנִ֣י כְנָ֑נִי וַֽיִּזְעֲקוּ֙ בְּק֣וֹל גָּד֔וֹל אֶל־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃
Nehemiah 9:4: 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:245 of Mova's parse database.
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