Nehemiah 12:46 · JPS 1917
For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
Who acts: praise · What happens: sing
This is Nehemiah 12:46 · 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 (praise), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 were | mark |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 were | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 David | case |
| 6 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 days | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Asaph | cc |
| 8 | Asaph | Asaph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 David | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 old | case |
| 10 | old | old | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 Asaph | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 were | expl |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 were | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 singers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 singers | det |
| 16 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 chief | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 songs | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 songs | cc |
| 19 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 chief | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 praise | case |
| 21 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 songs | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thanksgiving | cc |
| 23 | thanksgiving | thanksgiving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 praise | conj |
| 24 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 25 God | case |
| 25 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 songs | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 were | 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 | sing | praise and thanksgiving | unto God | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent unto=obl |
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
כִּֽי־בִימֵ֥י דָוִ֛יד וְאָסָ֖ף מִקֶּ֑דֶם רָאשֵׁי֙ הַמְשֹׁ֣רְרִ֔ים וְשִׁיר־תְּהִלָּ֥ה וְהֹד֖וֹת לֵֽאלֹהִֽים׃
Nehemiah 12:46: 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:405 of Mova's parse database.
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