Nehemiah 13:1 · JPS 1917
On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God for ever;
Who acts: they, Ammonite, people · What happens: read, find, write, not enter, hear · To what, where: book, assembly
This is Nehemiah 13:1 · 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 (they, Ammonite, people), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 read | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 read | nsubj |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 book | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 book | det |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 read | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Moses | case |
| 10 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 book | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hearing | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hearing | det |
| 13 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 read | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hearing | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 19 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 21 found | advmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 read | conj |
| 22 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 found | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 enter | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 enter | mark |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Ammonite | det |
| 26 | Ammonite | Ammonite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 enter | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Moabite | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Moabite | det |
| 29 | Moabite | Moabite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Ammonite | conj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 enter | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 enter | advmod |
| 32 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 written | ccomp |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 assembly | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 assembly | det |
| 35 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 enter | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 God | case |
| 37 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 assembly | nmod |
| 38 | for | for | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 32 enter | advmod |
| 39 | ever | ever | ADV | _ | 38 for | fixed |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | 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 | read | past | they | the book of Moses | day | in the hearing of the people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | find | past · passive | they not said here | therein property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | write | participle | they not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not enter | should | a Ammonite and a Moabite | the assembly of God | for property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into assembly=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | hear | the people | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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
בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא נִקְרָ֛א בְּסֵ֥פֶר מֹשֶׁ֖ה בְּאָזְנֵ֣י הָעָ֑ם וְנִמְצָא֙ כָּת֣וּב בּ֔וֹ אֲ֠שֶׁר לֹא־יָב֨וֹא עַמֹּנִ֧י וּמֹאָבִ֛י בִּקְהַ֥ל הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃
Nehemiah 13:1: 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:407 of Mova's parse database.
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