Nehemiah 9:24 · JPS 1917

So the children went in and possessed the land, and Thou didst subdue before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

Who acts: children, Thou · What happens: go in, possess, subdue, give, do · To what, where: land, inhabitants, children, hands

This is Nehemiah 9:24 · 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 (children, Thou), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 possessed	cc
7	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possessed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 subdue	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 subdue	cc
12	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 subdue	nsubj
13	didst	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 subdue	aux
14	subdue	subdue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	conj
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 subdue	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 inhabitants	det
18	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 subdue	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 land	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 land	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 inhabitants	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Canaanites	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Canaanites	det
24	Canaanites	Canaanites	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 inhabitants	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gavest	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gavest	cc
27	gavest	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 subdue	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gavest	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 hands	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hands	nmod:poss
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gavest	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 kings	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 kings	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 kings	nmod:poss
35	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gavest	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 peoples	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 peoples	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 peoples	det
39	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 kings	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 land	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 land	det
42	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 peoples	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 do	punct
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 do	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 do	nsubj
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 do	aux
47	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 subdue	advcl
48	with	with	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 do	obl
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 would	mark
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 would	nsubj
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 do	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in	past	the children					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	possess	past	the children not said here	the land				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme
3	subdue	past · do-support	Thou	the inhabitants of the land		before children = child		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Patient
4	give	past	Thou not said here	children = child	children's hands		with children's kings and the peoples of the land	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	do	might	children = child				with commandments = commandment	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

וַיָּבֹ֤אוּ הַבָּנִים֙ וַיִּֽירְשׁ֣וּ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ וַתַּכְנַ֨ע לִפְנֵיהֶ֜ם אֶת־יֹשְׁבֵ֤י הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ הַכְּנַ֣עֲנִ֔ים וַֽתִּתְּנֵ֖ם בְּיָדָ֑ם וְאֶת־מַלְכֵיהֶם֙ וְאֶת־עַֽמְמֵ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת בָּהֶ֖ם כִּרְצוֹנָֽם׃

Nehemiah 9:24: 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:265 of Mova's parse database.

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