Nehemiah 9:16 · JPS 1917
But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to Thy commandments,
Who acts: commandments, Thy · What happens: deal, harden, not hearken, command · To what, where: neck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 9:16 · 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 (commandments, Thy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 dealt | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dealt | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fathers | cc |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 they | conj |
| 6 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 6 dealt | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hardened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hardened | cc |
| 10 | hardened | harden | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dealt | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neck | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hardened | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hearkened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hearkened | cc |
| 15 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dealt | conj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 hearkened | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 commandments | case |
| 18 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 commandments | nmod:poss |
| 19 | commandments | commandment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hearkened | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hearkened | 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 | deal | past | commandments = commandment | proudly property | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | harden | past | commandments = commandment not said here | commandments's neck | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not hearken | past | commandments = commandment not said here | to Thy commandments | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | command | Thy | nom commandment «communication transitive»: 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
וְהֵ֥ם וַאֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ הֵזִ֑ידוּ וַיַּקְשׁוּ֙ אֶת־עָרְפָּ֔ם וְלֹ֥א שָׁמְע֖וּ אֶל־מִצְוֺתֶֽיךָ׃
Nehemiah 9:16: 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:257 of Mova's parse database.
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