Nehemiah 9:21 · JPS 1917

Yea, forty years didst Thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

Who acts: Thou, commandments, clothes, feet · What happens: sustain, lack, wax, not swell · To what, where: commandments, wilderness, nothing

This is Nehemiah 9:21 · 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, clothes, feet), 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	_	7 sustain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yea	punct
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sustain	obl:unmarked
5	didst	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sustain	aux
6	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 sustain	nsubj
7	sustain	sustain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sustain	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wilderness	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wilderness	det
11	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sustain	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lacked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lacked	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lacked	nsubj
15	lacked	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sustain	conj
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 lacked	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 waxed	punct
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 clothes	nmod:poss
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 waxed	nsubj
20	waxed	wax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sustain	parataxis
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 old	advmod
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 waxed	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 swelled	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 swelled	cc
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 feet	nmod:poss
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 swelled	nsubj
27	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 waxed	conj
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 swelled	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sustain	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sustain	past · do-support	Thou	commandments = commandment	the wilderness	year		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	lack	past	commandments = commandment	nothing				tree rules
3	wax	past	commandments's clothes				old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not swell	past	commandments's feet					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֛ה כִּלְכַּלְתָּ֥ם בַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר לֹ֣א חָסֵ֑רוּ שַׂלְמֹֽתֵיהֶם֙ לֹ֣א בָל֔וּ וְרַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם לֹ֥א בָצֵֽקוּ׃

Nehemiah 9:21: 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:262 of Mova's parse database.

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