Nehemiah 9:11 · JPS 1917

And Thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers Thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

Who acts: Thou, seas · What happens: divide, go, cast · To what, where: sea, midst, pursuers, depths

This is Nehemiah 9:11 · 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, seas), 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	_	4 divide	cc
2	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 divide	nsubj
3	didst	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 divide	aux
4	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 divide	obj
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 divide	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 went	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 divide	advcl
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 midst	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 midst	det
16	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 midst	nmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 land	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 land	det
22	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 land	amod
23	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 cast	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cast	cc
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pursuers	nmod:poss
27	pursuers	pursuer	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cast	obj
28	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 cast	nsubj
29	didst	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 cast	aux
30	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 divide	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 depths	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 depths	det
33	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cast	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stone	punct
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 stone	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 stone	det
37	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cast	obl
38	into	into	ADP	_	41 waters	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 waters	det
40	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 waters	amod
41	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 stone	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 divide	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divide	past · do-support	Thou	the sea		before seas = sea		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme
2	go	past	seas = sea		the midst of the sea		on the dry land	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through midst=Initial_Location
3	cast	past · do-support	Thou	seas's pursuers	the depths		as a stone into the mighty waters	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent pursuer=Material into depth=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

וְהַיָּם֙ בָּקַ֣עְתָּ לִפְנֵיהֶ֔ם וַיַּֽעַבְר֥וּ בְתוֹךְ־הַיָּ֖ם בַּיַּבָּשָׁ֑ה וְֽאֶת־רֹ֨דְפֵיהֶ֜ם הִשְׁלַ֧כְתָּ בִמְצוֹלֹ֛ת כְּמוֹ־אֶ֖בֶן בְּמַ֥יִם עַזִּֽים׃

Nehemiah 9:11: 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:252 of Mova's parse database.

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