Nehemiah 11:17 · JPS 1917
and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
Who acts: son · What happens: be, begin · To what, where: chief, thanksgiving, prayer
This is Nehemiah 11:17 · 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 (son), 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 | _ | 2 Mattaniah | cc |
| 2 | Mattaniah | Mattaniah | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mattaniah | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Mica | case |
| 6 | Mica | Mica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Zabdi | case |
| 11 | Zabdi | Zabdi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Asaph | case |
| 16 | Asaph | Asaph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 chief | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 chief | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 chief | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chief | det |
| 21 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 begin | mark |
| 23 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 chief | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 thanksgiving | det |
| 25 | thanksgiving | thanksgiving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begin | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 prayer | case |
| 27 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begin | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Bakbukiah | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Bakbukiah | cc |
| 30 | Bakbukiah | Bakbukiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 second | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 second | det |
| 33 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 Bakbukiah | appos |
| 34 | among | among | ADP | _ | 36 brethren | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 36 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 second | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 Abda | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Abda | cc |
| 39 | Abda | Abda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mattaniah | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 son | det |
| 41 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Abda | appos |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Shammua | case |
| 43 | Shammua | Shammua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 son | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 son | punct |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 son | det |
| 46 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 Shammua | appos |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Galal | case |
| 48 | Galal | Galal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 son | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 son | punct |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 son | det |
| 51 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Galal | appos |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 Jeduthun | case |
| 53 | Jeduthun | Jeduthun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 son | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mattaniah | 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 | is a | past | the son of Asaph and Bakbukiah | the chief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | to-infinitive | the son of Asaph and Bakbukiah not said here | the thanksgiving | prayer | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanksgiving=Eventuality |
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
וּמַתַּנְיָ֣ה בֶן־מִ֠יכָה בֶּן־זַבְדִּ֨י בֶן־אָסָ֜ף רֹ֗אשׁ הַתְּחִלָּה֙ יְהוֹדֶ֣ה לַתְּפִלָּ֔ה וּבַקְבֻּקְיָ֖ה מִשְׁנֶ֣ה מֵאֶחָ֑יו וְעַבְדָּא֙ בֶּן־שַׁמּ֔וּעַ בֶּן־גָּלָ֖ל בֶּן־יְדוּתֽוּן׃
Nehemiah 11:17: 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:337 of Mova's parse database.
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