Nehemiah 2:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also of the king's words that he had spoken unto me.
Who acts: I, God, Jerusalem, king · What happens: tell, be, speak, word · To what, where: gates, words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 2:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, God, Jerusalem, king), 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 told | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hand | det |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 God | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 God | nmod:poss |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 good | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 good | cop |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 God | acl:relcl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 good | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 words | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 words | case |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 words | advmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 words | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 words | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 king | case |
| 23 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 spoken | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 spoken | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 spoken | aux |
| 27 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 words | acl:relcl |
| 28 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 spoken | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | I | gates = gate | of the hand of my God; as the king's words | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past | my God | upon me; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | Jerusalem | the king's words | unto me | tree rules | |||
| 4 | word | the king | nom word «communication 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
וָאַגִּ֨יד לָהֶ֜ם אֶת־יַ֣ד אֱלֹהַ֗י אֲשֶׁר־הִיא֙ טוֹבָ֣ה עָלַ֔י וְאַף־דִּבְרֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָֽמַר־לִ֑י וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ נָק֣וּם וּבָנִ֔ינוּ וַיְחַזְּק֥וּ יְדֵיהֶ֖ם לַטּוֹבָֽה׃פ
Nehemiah 2:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also of the king's words that he had spoken unto me.
- And they said: 'Let us rise up and build.' So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NEH:31 of Mova's parse database.
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