Nehemiah 12:27 · JPS 1917

And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

Who acts: priests · What happens: seek, bring, keep · To what, where: Levites, dedication, priests, Jerusalem

This is Nehemiah 12:27 · 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 (priests), 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	_	11 sought	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 dedication	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dedication	det
4	dedication	dedication	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sought	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wall	det
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dedication	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Jerusalem	case
9	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wall	nmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sought	nsubj
11	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Levites	det
13	Levites	Levite	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 sought	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	18 places	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 places	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 places	det:predet
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 places	nmod:poss
18	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sought	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bring	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bring	mark
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sought	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Jerusalem	case
24	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bring	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 keep	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 keep	mark
27	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bring	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dedication	det
29	dedication	dedication	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 keep	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 gladness	case
31	gladness	gladness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dedication	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thanksgivings	punct
33	both	both	CCONJ	_	35 thanksgivings	cc:preconj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 thanksgivings	case
35	thanksgivings	thanksgiving	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 keep	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 singing	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 singing	cc
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 singing	case
39	singing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 thanksgivings	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 cymbals	punct
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 cymbals	case
42	cymbals	cymbal	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 singing	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 psalteries	punct
44	psalteries	psaltery	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 cymbals	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 harps	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 harps	cc
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 harps	case
48	harps	harp	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 cymbals	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sought	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	past	priests = priest	the Levites		the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem	out priests's places	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent levite=Theme at dedication=Location
2	bring	to-infinitive	priests = priest not said here	priests = priest	Jerusalem			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to jerusalem=Destination
3	keep	to-infinitive	priests = priest not said here	the dedication			with gladness; with thanksgivings and singing with cymbals and psalteries and harps	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dedication=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

וּבַחֲנֻכַּ֞ת חוֹמַ֣ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם בִּקְשׁ֤וּ אֶת־הַלְוִיִּם֙ מִכָּל־מְק֣וֹמֹתָ֔ם לַהֲבִיאָ֖ם לִֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם לַעֲשֹׂ֨ת חֲנֻכָּ֤ה וְשִׂמְחָה֙ וּבְתוֹד֣וֹת וּבְשִׁ֔יר מְצִלְתַּ֖יִם נְבָלִ֥ים וּבְכִנֹּרֽוֹת׃

Nehemiah 12:27: 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:385 of Mova's parse database.

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