Nehemiah 9:37 · JPS 1917
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom Thou hast set over us because of our sins; also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.'
Who acts: land, Thou, sins, we · What happens: yield, set, have, be, please · To what, where: much increase, kings, power, bodies, great distress
This is Nehemiah 9:37 · 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 (land, Thou, sins, we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 yieldeth | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 yieldeth | nsubj |
| 3 | yieldeth | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 increase | amod |
| 5 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yieldeth | obj |
| 6 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 8 kings | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kings | det |
| 8 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 yieldeth | obl |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 set | obj |
| 10 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 set | nsubj |
| 11 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 set | aux |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 kings | acl:relcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 set | obl |
| 15 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 sins | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 because | fixed |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sins | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 yieldeth | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 have | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 yieldeth | conj |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 bodies | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cattle | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 cattle | cc |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 cattle | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 31 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bodies | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pleasure | punct |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 pleasure | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 35 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 distress | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 distress | cc |
| 38 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 distress | nsubj |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 distress | cop |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 distress | case |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 distress | amod |
| 42 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yieldeth | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 yieldeth | punct |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 yieldeth | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | present | land | much increase | unto the kings; because our sins | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent increase=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | present · perfect | Thou | the kings | over us | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme over we=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | present | sins = sin | power | our bodies and our cattle | at sins's pleasure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||
| 4 | is | present | we | great distress | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | please | sins = sin | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: 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
וּתְבוּאָתָ֣הּ מַרְבָּ֗ה לַמְּלָכִ֛ים אֲשֶׁר־נָתַ֥תָּה עָלֵ֖ינוּ בְּחַטֹּאותֵ֑ינוּ וְעַ֣ל גְּ֠וִיֹּתֵינוּ מֹשְׁלִ֤ים וּבִבְהֶמְתֵּ֙נוּ֙ כִּרְצוֹנָ֔ם וּבְצָרָ֥ה גְדוֹלָ֖ה אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃פ
Nehemiah 9:37: 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:278 of Mova's parse database.
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