Nehemiah 12:30 · JPS 1917
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
Who acts: priests · What happens: purify · To what, where: priests, people
This is Nehemiah 12:30 · 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 | _ | 7 purified | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 priests | det |
| 3 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 purified | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Levites | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Levites | det |
| 6 | Levites | levite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 priests | conj |
| 7 | purified | purify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 purified | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 purified | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 purified | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 purified | nsubj |
| 12 | purified | purify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 purified | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 purified | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gates | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gates | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gates | det |
| 18 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 people | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wall | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wall | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wall | det |
| 22 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 purified | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purify | past | the priests and the Levites | priests = priest | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 2 | purify | past | priests = priest | the people and the gates and the wall | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent people=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
וַיִּֽטַּהֲר֔וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים וְהַלְוִיִּ֑ם וַֽיְטַהֲרוּ֙ אֶת־הָעָ֔ם וְאֶת־הַשְּׁעָרִ֖ים וְאֶֽת־הַחוֹמָֽה׃
Nehemiah 12:30: 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:388 of Mova's parse database.
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