Nehemiah 9:12 · JPS 1917

Moreover in a pillar of cloud Thou didst lead them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

Who acts: Thou, pursuers · What happens: lead, give, go · To what, where: pursuers, pillar, light, way

This is Nehemiah 9:12 · 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 (Thou, pursuers), 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	Moreover	moreover	ADV	_	9 lead	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 pillar	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pillar	det
4	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lead	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cloud	case
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pillar	nmod
7	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 lead	nsubj
8	didst	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lead	aux
9	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lead	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 day	case
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lead	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 lead	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pillar	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pillar	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pillar	det
17	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lead	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 fire	case
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pillar	nmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 night	case
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pillar	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 give	mark
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lead	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 way	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obl
30	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 go	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 go	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 go	aux
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 way	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lead	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past · do-support	Thou	pursuers = pursuer		a pillar of cloud	day	in a pillar of fire by night; moreover property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pillar=Destination
2	give	to-infinitive	Thou not said here	light	pursuers = pursuer	the way			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient light=Theme
3	go	should	pursuers = pursuer					wherein property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

וּבְעַמּ֣וּד עָנָ֔ן הִנְחִיתָ֖ם יוֹמָ֑ם וּבְעַמּ֥וּד אֵשׁ֙ לַ֔יְלָה לְהָאִ֣יר לָהֶ֔ם אֶת־הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֵֽלְכוּ־בָֽהּ׃

Nehemiah 9:12: 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:253 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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