Nehemiah 12:25 · JPS 1917
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the store-houses of the gates.
Who acts: Mattaniah, porters · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: porters, ward, store houses
This is Nehemiah 12:25 · 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 (Mattaniah, porters), 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 | Mattaniah | Mattaniah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 porters | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Bakbukiah | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Bakbukiah | cc |
| 4 | Bakbukiah | Bakbukiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mattaniah | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Obadiah | punct |
| 6 | Obadiah | Obadiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mattaniah | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Meshullam | punct |
| 8 | Meshullam | Meshullam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mattaniah | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Talmon | punct |
| 10 | Talmon | Talmon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mattaniah | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Akkub | punct |
| 12 | Akkub | Akkub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mattaniah | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mattaniah | punct |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 porters | cop |
| 15 | porters | porter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 porters | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ward | det |
| 18 | ward | ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keeping | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 houses | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 houses | det |
| 21 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 houses | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 store | punct |
| 23 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keeping | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gates | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gates | det |
| 26 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 houses | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 porters | 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 | Mattaniah and Bakbukiah and Obadiah and Meshullam and Talmon and Akkub | porters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | porters not said here | the ward | the store houses of the gates | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ward=Theme at house=Location |
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
מַתַּנְיָ֧ה וּבַקְבֻּֽקְיָ֛ה עֹבַדְיָ֥ה מְשֻׁלָּ֖ם טַלְמ֣וֹן עַקּ֑וּב שֹׁמְרִ֤ים שֽׁוֹעֲרִים֙ מִשְׁמָ֔ר בַּאֲסֻפֵּ֖י הַשְּׁעָרִֽים׃
Nehemiah 12:25: 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:383 of Mova's parse database.
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