Nehemiah 9:26 · JPS 1917

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and slew Thy prophets that did forewarn them to turn them back unto Thee, and they wrought great provocations.

Who acts: commandments, prophets · What happens: be, rebel, cast, slay, forewarn, turn back · To what, where: law, back, prophets, commandments, great provocations

This is Nehemiah 9:26 · 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 (commandments, prophets), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	4 disobedient	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 disobedient	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disobedient	cop
4	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rebelled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rebelled	cc
7	rebelled	rebel	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disobedient	conj
8	against	against	ADP	_	9 Thee	case
9	Thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 rebelled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cast	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cast	cc
12	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disobedient	conj
13	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 law	nmod:poss
14	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cast	obj
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cast	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 slew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 slew	cc
20	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disobedient	conj
21	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 prophets	nmod:poss
22	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 slew	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 forewarn	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 forewarn	aux
25	forewarn	forewarn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 prophets	acl:relcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 forewarn	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 turn	mark
28	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 forewarn	xcomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 turn	obj
30	back	back	ADV	_	28 turn	advmod
31	unto	unto	ADP	_	32 Thee	case
32	Thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 turn	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wrought	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 wrought	cc
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wrought	nsubj
36	wrought	wrought	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disobedient	conj
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 provocations	amod
38	provocations	provocation	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 wrought	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 disobedient	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	commandments = commandment			disobedient, nevertheless property	tree rules
2	rebel	past	commandments = commandment not said here			against Thee	vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against thou=Maleficiary
3	cast	past	commandments = commandment not said here	Thy law	commandments's back		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent law=Theme behind back=Destination
4	slay	past	commandments = commandment not said here	Thy prophets			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Patient
5	forewarn	past · do-support	Thy prophets	commandments = commandment			tree rules
6	turn back	to-infinitive	Thy prophets not said here	commandments = commandment		unto Thee	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	wrought	past	commandments = commandment	great provocations			tree rules

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

וַיַּמְר֨וּ וַֽיִּמְרְד֜וּ בָּ֗ךְ וַיַּשְׁלִ֤כוּ אֶת־תּוֹרָֽתְךָ֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י גַוָּ֔ם וְאֶת־נְבִיאֶ֣יךָ הָרָ֔גוּ אֲשֶׁר־הֵעִ֥ידוּ בָ֖ם לַהֲשִׁיבָ֣ם אֵלֶ֑יךָ וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּ נֶאָצ֖וֹת גְּדוֹלֹֽת׃

Nehemiah 9:26: 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:267 of Mova's parse database.

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