Nehemiah 2:12 · JPS 1917
And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
Who acts: I, God, beast · What happens: arise, tell, put, do, be, ride · To what, where: man, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 2:12 · 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 (I, God, beast), 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 arose | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 I | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 I | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 men | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 men | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 I | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 men | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 16 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | parataxis |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 told | nsubj |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | iobj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 do | obj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 God | nmod:poss |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 put | nsubj |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 told | ccomp |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 heart | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 do | mark |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 put | advcl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 Jerusalem | case |
| 31 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 do | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 was | punct |
| 33 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 34 was | cc |
| 34 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | parataxis |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | _ | 34 was | expl |
| 36 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 beast | det |
| 37 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 was | nsubj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 me | case |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 beast | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 save | punct |
| 41 | save | save | ADP | _ | 43 beast | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 beast | det |
| 43 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 beast | nmod |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 rode | obl |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 rode | nsubj |
| 46 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 beast | acl:relcl |
| 47 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 44 that | case |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | I | night | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | I | any man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | put | past | my God | my heart | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | my God not said here | for Jerusalem | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | be | past | any beast with me save the beast | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ride | past | I | upon the beast | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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
וָאָק֣וּם ׀ לַ֗יְלָה אֲנִי֮ וַאֲנָשִׁ֣ים ׀ מְעַט֮ עִמִּי֒ וְלֹא־הִגַּ֣דְתִּי לְאָדָ֔ם מָ֗ה אֱלֹהַי֙ נֹתֵ֣ן אֶל־לִבִּ֔י לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת לִירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וּבְהֵמָה֙ אֵ֣ין עִמִּ֔י כִּ֚י אִם־הַבְּהֵמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲנִ֖י רֹכֵ֥ב בָּֽהּ׃
Nehemiah 2:12: 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:25 of Mova's parse database.
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