Nehemiah 2:13 · JPS 1917

And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the dragon's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

Who acts: I · What happens: go out, view, break down, consume · To what, where: walls, gates

This is Nehemiah 2:13 · 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 (I), 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 went	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
9	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gate	compound
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 well	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
13	toward	toward	ADP	_	17 well	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dragon	det
15	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 well	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 dragon	case
17	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gate	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gate	cc
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 gate	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gate	det
22	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gate	compound
23	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 well	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 viewed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 viewed	cc
26	viewed	view	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 walls	det
28	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 viewed	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Jerusalem	case
30	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 walls	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 broken	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 broken	nsubj:pass
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 broken	aux:pass
34	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 walls	acl:relcl
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 broken	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 consumed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 consumed	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 gates	det
39	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 consumed	nsubj:pass
40	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	39 gates	advmod
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 consumed	aux:pass
42	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 fire	case
44	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 consumed	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	I		night	by the valley gate; toward the dragon's well and the dung gate; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	view	past	I not said here	the walls of Jerusalem			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wall=Stimulus
3	break down	past · passive		the walls of Jerusalem			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	consume	past · passive		the gates		with fire	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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

וָאֵצְאָ֨ה בְשַֽׁעַר־הַגַּ֜יא לַ֗יְלָה וְאֶל־פְּנֵי֙ עֵ֣ינ הַתַּנִּ֔ין עֵ֣ינ הַתַּנִּ֔ין וְאֶל־שַׁ֖עַר הָאַשְׁפֹּ֑ת וָאֱהִ֨י שֹׂבֵ֜ר בְּחוֹמֹ֤ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ אֲשֶׁר־הֵ֣ם ׀ פְּרוּצִ֔ים וּשְׁעָרֶ֖יהָ אֻכְּל֥וּ בָאֵֽשׁ׃

Nehemiah 2:13: 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:26 of Mova's parse database.

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