Nehemiah 12:37 · JPS 1917

and by the fountain gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.

Who acts: gates · What happens: go up · To what, where: going

This is Nehemiah 12:37 · 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 (gates), 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	_	13 went	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 gate	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
4	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gate	compound
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 them	advmod
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 them	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	up	up	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 stairs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stairs	det
17	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 city	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 city	det
20	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stairs	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 David	case
22	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 city	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 going	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 going	det
26	going	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
27	up	up	ADV	_	26 going	advmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 wall	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wall	det
30	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 going	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 house	punct
32	above	above	ADP	_	34 house	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 house	det
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 going	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 David	case
36	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 house	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 gate	punct
38	even	even	ADV	_	42 gate	advmod
39	unto	unto	ADP	_	42 gate	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 gate	det
41	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 gate	compound
42	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
43	eastward	eastward	ADV	_	42 gate	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	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	go up	past	gates = gate			the going of the wall above the house of David	before gates = gate	by the fountain gate; by the stairs of the city of David; unto the water gate	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

וְעַל֩ שַׁ֨עַר הָעַ֜יִן וְנֶגְדָּ֗ם עָלוּ֙ עַֽל־מַעֲלוֹת֙ עִ֣יר דָּוִ֔יד בַּֽמַּעֲלֶ֖ה לַחוֹמָ֑ה מֵעַל֙ לְבֵ֣ית דָּוִ֔יד וְעַ֛ד שַׁ֥עַר הַמַּ֖יִם מִזְרָֽח׃

Nehemiah 12:37: 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:395 of Mova's parse database.

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