Nehemiah 9:20 · JPS 1917
Thou gavest also Thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not Thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
Who acts: Thou, commandments · What happens: give, instruct, not withhold, thirst · To what, where: good spirit, commandments, manna, mouth, water
This is Nehemiah 9:20 · 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, 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 gavest | nsubj |
| 2 | gavest | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 gavest | advmod |
| 4 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spirit | amod |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gavest | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 instruct | mark |
| 8 | instruct | instruct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gavest | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 instruct | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 withheldest | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 withheldest | cc |
| 12 | withheldest | withhold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gavest | conj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 withheldest | advmod |
| 14 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 manna | nmod:poss |
| 15 | manna | manna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 withheldest | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 mouth | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 withheldest | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gavest | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gavest | cc |
| 21 | gavest | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gavest | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gavest | iobj |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gavest | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 thirst | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 thirst | nmod:poss |
| 26 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gavest | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gavest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Thou | Thy good spirit | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | to-infinitive | Thou not said here | commandments = commandment | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not withhold | past | Thou not said here | Thy manna | commandments's mouth | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give | past | Thou not said here | water | commandments = commandment | for commandments's thirst | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient water=Theme for thirst=Asset | ||
| 5 | thirst | commandments = commandment | nom thirst «state intransitive»: 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
וְרוּחֲךָ֨ הַטּוֹבָ֔ה נָתַ֖תָּ לְהַשְׂכִּילָ֑ם וּמַנְךָ֙ לֹא־מָנַ֣עְתָּ מִפִּיהֶ֔ם וּמַ֛יִם נָתַ֥תָּה לָהֶ֖ם לִצְמָאָֽם׃
Nehemiah 9:20: 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:261 of Mova's parse database.
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