Nehemiah 9:9 · JPS 1917
And Thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;
Who acts: Thou, fathers · What happens: see, hear, afflict, cry · To what, where: affliction, Egypt, cry, fathers
This is Nehemiah 9:9 · 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 (Thou, fathers), 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 sawest | cc |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 sawest | nsubj |
| 3 | sawest | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 affliction | det |
| 5 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sawest | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fathers | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 affliction | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Egypt | case |
| 10 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sawest | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heardest | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 heardest | cc |
| 13 | heardest | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sawest | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cry | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heardest | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sea | det |
| 18 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sea | flat |
| 19 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 heardest | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 sawest | 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 | see | past | Thou | the affliction of our fathers | Egypt | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer affliction=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hear | past | Thou not said here | fathers's cry | by the Red Sea | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | afflict | our fathers | nom affliction «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | cry | fathers = father | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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
וַתֵּ֛רֶא אֶת־עֳנִ֥י אֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם וְאֶת־זַעֲקָתָ֥ם שָׁמַ֖עְתָּ עַל־יַם־סֽוּף׃
Nehemiah 9:9: 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:250 of Mova's parse database.
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