Nehemiah 2:15 · JPS 1917

Then went I up in the night in the valley, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

Who acts: I · What happens: go up, view, turn back, enter, return · To what, where: wall

This is Nehemiah 2:15 · 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 (I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 went	advmod
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
4	up	up	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 valley	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 valley	det
10	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 viewed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 viewed	cc
13	viewed	view	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wall	det
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 viewed	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 turned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 turned	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 turned	nsubj
19	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 turned	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 entered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 entered	cc
23	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 turned	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 gate	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gate	det
26	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gate	compound
27	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 entered	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 returned	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 returned	cc
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 returned	advmod
31	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 turned	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	I		then; night	in the valley	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in valley=Attribute
2	view	past	I not said here	the wall			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wall=Stimulus
3	turn back	past	I				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	enter	past	I not said here			by the valley gate	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	return	past	I not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

וָאֱהִ֨י עֹלֶ֤ה בַנַּ֙חַל֙ לַ֔יְלָה וָאֱהִ֥י שֹׂבֵ֖ר בַּחוֹמָ֑ה וָאָשׁ֗וּב וָאָב֛וֹא בְּשַׁ֥עַר הַגַּ֖יְא וָאָשֽׁוּב׃

Nehemiah 2:15: 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:28 of Mova's parse database.

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