Nehemiah 9:19 · JPS 1917

yet Thou in Thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go.

Who acts: Thou, pillar, commandments · What happens: not forsake, not depart, lead, show, go · To what, where: commandments, manifold mercies, way, light

This is Nehemiah 9:19 · 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, pillar, commandments), 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	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	7 forsookest	cc
2	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 forsookest	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 mercies	case
4	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 mercies	nmod:poss
5	manifold	manifold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mercies	amod
6	mercies	mercy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forsookest	obl
7	forsookest	forsake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forsookest	obj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 forsookest	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wilderness	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wilderness	det
12	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forsookest	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 departed	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pillar	det
15	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 departed	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 cloud	case
17	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pillar	nmod
18	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 forsookest	parataxis
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 departed	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 them	case
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 departed	obl
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 day	case
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 departed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lead	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 lead	mark
27	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 departed	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lead	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lead	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 pillar	punct
33	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	35 pillar	cc:preconj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pillar	det
35	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 departed	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 fire	case
37	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pillar	nmod
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 night	case
39	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pillar	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 show	punct
41	to	to	PART	_	42 show	mark
42	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 pillar	acl
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 show	iobj
44	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 show	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 way	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 way	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 way	det
48	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pillar	conj
49	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	52 go	advmod
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 go	nsubj
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 go	aux
52	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 way	acl:relcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 forsookest	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not forsake	past	Thou	commandments = commandment		Thy manifold mercies		in the wilderness	tree rules
2	not depart	past	the pillar of cloud				day	from commandments = commandment	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location
3	lead	to-infinitive	the pillar of cloud not said here	commandments = commandment		the way			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in way=Destination
4	show	to-infinitive	the pillar of cloud not said here	light	commandments = commandment				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient light=Topic
5	go	should	commandments = commandment					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

וְאַתָּה֙ בְּרַחֲמֶ֣יךָ הָֽרַבִּ֔ים לֹ֥א עֲזַבְתָּ֖ם בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר אֶת־עַמּ֣וּד הֶ֠עָנָן לֹא־סָ֨ר מֵעֲלֵיהֶ֤ם בְּיוֹמָם֙ לְהַנְחֹתָ֣ם בְּהַדֶּ֔רֶךְ וְאֶת־עַמּ֨וּד הָאֵ֤שׁ בְּלַ֙יְלָה֙ לְהָאִ֣יר לָהֶ֔ם וְאֶת־הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֵֽלְכוּ־בָֽהּ׃

Nehemiah 9:19: 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:260 of Mova's parse database.

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