Nehemiah 2:20 · JPS 1917

Then answered I them, and said unto them: 'The God of heaven, He will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build; but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.'

Who acts: I, God, we, ye · What happens: answer, say, prosper, arise, build, have · To what, where: Sanballat, us, portion, Jerusalem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 2:20 · 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, God, we, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 answered	advmod
2	answered	answer	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 answered	nsubj
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	conj
8	unto	unto	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 prosper	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 prosper	punct
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 God	det
13	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 prosper	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 heaven	case
15	heaven	heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 God	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 prosper	punct
17	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 God	appos
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 prosper	aux
19	prosper	prosper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 prosper	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 arise	punct
22	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	27 arise	advmod
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 arise	nsubj
24	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 servants	nmod:poss
25	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 we	appos
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 arise	aux
27	arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 build	cc
29	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 arise	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 have	cc
32	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 arise	conj
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 portion	det
35	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 right	punct
37	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	38 right	cc
38	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 portion	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 memorial	punct
40	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	41 memorial	cc
41	memorial	memorial	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 portion	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Jerusalem	punct
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 Jerusalem	case
44	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 have	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	I		Sanballat		then		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	I not said here					unto Sanballat	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	prosper	future	the God of heaven	us					tree rules
4	arise	future	we					therefore property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	build	infinitive	we not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	have	present	ye	no portion nor right nor memorial		Jerusalem			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Patient

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

וָאָשִׁ֨יב אוֹתָ֜ם דָּבָ֗ר וָאוֹמַ֤ר לָהֶם֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם ה֚וּא יַצְלִ֣יחַֽ לָ֔נוּ וַאֲנַ֥חְנוּ עֲבָדָ֖יו נָק֣וּם וּבָנִ֑ינוּ וְלָכֶ֗ם אֵֽין־חֵ֧לֶק וּצְדָקָ֛ה וְזִכָּר֖וֹן בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

Nehemiah 2:20: 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:34 of Mova's parse database.

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