Nehemiah 11:23 · JPS 1917
For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a sure ordinance concerning the singers, as every day required.
Who acts: commandment, day · What happens: be, require
This is Nehemiah 11:23 · 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 (commandment, day), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | _ | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 commandment | det |
| 5 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commandment | nmod |
| 9 | concerning | concern | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 commandment | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordinance | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ordinance | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ordinance | det |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ordinance | amod |
| 15 | ordinance | ordinance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commandment | conj |
| 16 | concerning | concern | ADP | _ | 18 singers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 singers | det |
| 18 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ordinance | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 required | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 required | mark |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 required | nsubj |
| 23 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 was | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | 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 | be | past | a commandment from the king concern singers and a sure ordinance concern the singers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | require | participle | every day | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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
כִּֽי־מִצְוַ֥ת הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וַאֲמָנָ֥ה עַל־הַמְשֹׁרְרִ֖ים דְּבַר־י֥וֹם בְּיוֹמֽוֹ׃
Nehemiah 11:23: 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:343 of Mova's parse database.
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