Nehemiah 12:31 · JPS 1917
Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies that gave thanks and went in procession: on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate;
Who acts: I, two great companies · What happens: bring up, appoint, give, go · To what, where: princes, two great companies, right hand, thanks, procession
This is Nehemiah 12:31 · 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, two great companies), 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 | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 brought | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princes | det |
| 6 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Judah | case |
| 8 | Judah | Judah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 princes | nmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appointed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appointed | cc |
| 14 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 companies | nummod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 companies | amod |
| 17 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 appointed | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 companies | acl:relcl |
| 20 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 gave | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gave | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 procession | case |
| 24 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 hand | punct |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hand | det |
| 28 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hand | amod |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 companies | nmod |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 wall | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wall | det |
| 32 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hand | nmod |
| 33 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 36 gate | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 gate | det |
| 35 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gate | compound |
| 36 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wall | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past | I | the princes of Judah | then | upon the wall | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | ||
| 2 | appoint | past | I not said here | two great companies | the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | two great companies | thanks | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | two great companies not said here | procession | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in procession=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
וָאַעֲלֶה֙ אֶת־שָׂרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה מֵעַ֖ל לַחוֹמָ֑ה וָאַעֲמִ֡ידָה שְׁתֵּ֣י תוֹדֹת֩ גְּדוֹלֹ֨ת וְתַהֲלֻכֹ֤ת לַיָּמִין֙ מֵעַ֣ל לַחוֹמָ֔ה לְשַׁ֖עַר הָאַשְׁפֹּֽת׃
Nehemiah 12:31: 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:389 of Mova's parse database.
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