Nehemiah 9:18 · JPS 1917
Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said: 'This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
Who acts: commandments, This, God · What happens: make, say, be, bring up, wrought · To what, where: molten calf, wonders, God, thee, Egypt, great provocations · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 9:18 · 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, This, God), 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 | Yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 13 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yea | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 made | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 calf | det |
| 9 | molten | molten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 calf | amod |
| 10 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 God | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 God | punct |
| 16 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 God | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 God | cop |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 God | nmod:poss |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 brought | nsubj |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 God | acl:relcl |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 brought | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 brought | compound:prt |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 Egypt | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Egypt | case |
| 26 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wrought | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wrought | cc |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 wrought | aux |
| 30 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 brought | conj |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 provocations | amod |
| 32 | provocations | provocation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wrought | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | commandments = commandment | a molten calf | wonders = wonder | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary calf=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | This | thy God | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring up | past | thy God | thee | Egypt | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | |||
| 5 | wrought | past · perfect | thy God not said here | great provocations | tree rules |
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
אַ֗ף כִּֽי־עָשׂ֤וּ לָהֶם֙ עֵ֣גֶל מַסֵּכָ֔ה וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ זֶ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶעֶלְךָ֖ מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּ נֶאָצ֖וֹת גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃
Nehemiah 9:18: 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:259 of Mova's parse database.
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