Nehemiah 1:4 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

Who acts: remnant, I · What happens: come, pass, hear, sit down, weep, mourn · To what, where: words

This is Nehemiah 1:4 · 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 (remnant, I), 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	_	3 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 heard	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 sat	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	ccomp
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 sat	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wept	cc
18	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mourned	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mourned	cc
21	mourned	mourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
22	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 days	amod
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 mourned	obl:unmarked
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 fasted	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fasted	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 fasted	nsubj
27	fasted	fast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 prayed	cc
29	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fasted	conj
30	before	before	ADP	_	32 God	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 God	det
32	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 prayed	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 heaven	case
34	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 God	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	remnant				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	remnant not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	I	this words			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	sit down	past	I			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	weep	past	I not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	mourn	past	I not said here		day		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	fast	past	I				tree rules
8	pray	past	I not said here		before the God of heaven		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

וַיְהִ֞י כְּשָׁמְעִ֣י ׀ אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה יָשַׁ֙בְתִּי֙ וָֽאֶבְכֶּ֔ה וָאֶתְאַבְּלָ֖ה יָמִ֑ים וָֽאֱהִ֥י צָם֙ וּמִתְפַּלֵּ֔ל לִפְנֵ֖י אֱלֹהֵ֥י הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

Nehemiah 1:4: 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:4 of Mova's parse database.

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