Nehemiah 2:17 · JPS 1917

Then said I unto them: 'Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire; come and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.'

Who acts: I, Ye, Jerusalem, us, we · What happens: say, see, lie, burn, come, let · To what, where: evil case, gates, us, wall, reproach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 2:17 · 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, Ye, Jerusalem, us), 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 said	advmod
2	said	say	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 said	nsubj
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
8	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 see	nsubj
9	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 case	det
11	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 case	amod
12	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 in	obj
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 in	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 in	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	12 case	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lieth	punct
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 lieth	advmod
19	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lieth	nsubj
20	lieth	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 see	ccomp
21	waste	waste	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lieth	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 burned	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 burned	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gates	det
25	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 burned	nsubj:pass
26	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	25 gates	advmod
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 burned	aux:pass
28	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 lieth	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 fire	case
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 burned	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 let	cc
34	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	conj
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 let	obj
36	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 let	xcomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 build	compound:prt
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wall	det
39	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 build	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Jerusalem	case
41	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 wall	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 reproach	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 reproach	mark
44	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 reproach	nsubj
45	be	be	AUX	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 reproach	cop
46	no	no	ADV	_	47 more	advmod
47	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	49 reproach	advmod
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 reproach	det
49	reproach	reproach	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 build	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
51	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I		then	unto rulers = ruler	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	present	Ye	the evil case			tree rules
3	lie	present	Jerusalem			waste property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	burn	present · passive		the gates		with fire	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fire=Instrument
5	come	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
7	build up	infinitive	us not said here	the wall of Jerusalem			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer wall=Patient
8	is a	present	we	a reproach			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

וָאוֹמַ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֗ם אַתֶּ֤ם רֹאִים֙ הָרָעָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲנַ֣חְנוּ בָ֔הּ אֲשֶׁ֤ר יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ חֲרֵבָ֔ה וּשְׁעָרֶ֖יהָ נִצְּת֣וּ בָאֵ֑שׁ לְכ֗וּ וְנִבְנֶה֙ אֶת־חוֹמַ֣ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם וְלֹא־נִהְיֶ֥ה ע֖וֹד חֶרְפָּֽה׃

Nehemiah 2:17: 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:30 of Mova's parse database.

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