Nehemiah 2:19 · JPS 1917

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said: 'What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?'

Who acts: Sanballat, ye · What happens: hear, laugh, scorn, despise, say, be · To what, where: hand, us, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 2:19 · 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 (Sanballat, ye), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	24 laughed	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 heard	mark
3	Sanballat	Sanballat	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 heard	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Horonite	det
5	Horonite	Horonite	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sanballat	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Tobiah	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Tobiah	cc
8	Tobiah	Tobiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sanballat	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servant	det
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Sanballat	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Ammonite	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ammonite	det
13	Ammonite	Ammonite	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 servant	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Geshem	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Geshem	cc
16	Geshem	Geshem	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sanballat	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Arabian	det
18	Arabian	Arabian	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Geshem	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Sanballat	punct
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 laughed	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 laughed	nsubj
24	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 laughed	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 scorn	mark
27	scorn	scorn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 laughed	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 despised	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 despised	cc
30	despised	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 laughed	conj
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 despised	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 laughed	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 thing	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	40 thing	punct
37	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 thing	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 thing	cop
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 thing	det
40	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	ccomp
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 do	obj
42	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	43 do	nsubj
43	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 thing	acl:relcl
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	40 thing	punct
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 rebel	aux
46	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	47 rebel	nsubj
47	rebel	rebel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 said	parataxis
48	against	against	ADP	_	50 king	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 king	det
50	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 rebel	obl
51	?	?	PUNCT	_	47 rebel	punct
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 rebel	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem	hand		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	laugh	past	Sanballat	us		tree rules
3	scorn	to-infinitive	Sanballat not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	despise	past	Sanballat not said here	us		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	Sanballat not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present		this thing		tree rules
7	do	present	ye	this thing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
8	rebel	future	ye		against the king	vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against king=Maleficiary

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

וַיִּשְׁמַע֩ סַנְבַלַּ֨ט הַחֹרֹנִ֜י וְטֹבִיָּ֣ה ׀ הָעֶ֣בֶד הָֽעַמּוֹנִ֗י וְגֶ֙שֶׁם֙ הָֽעַרְבִ֔י וַיַּלְעִ֣גוּ לָ֔נוּ וַיִּבְז֖וּ עָלֵ֑ינוּ וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ מָֽה־הַדָּבָ֤ר הַזֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אַתֶּ֣ם עֹשִׂ֔ים הַעַ֥ל הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אַתֶּ֥ם מֹרְדִֽים׃

Nehemiah 2:19: 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:33 of Mova's parse database.

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