Nehemiah 13:6 · JPS 1917
But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went unto the king, and after certain days asked I leave of the king;
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, go, ask · To what, where: Jerusalem, leave
This is Nehemiah 13:6 · 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 Jerusalem | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Jerusalem | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Jerusalem | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Jerusalem | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 Jerusalem | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Jerusalem | case |
| 10 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 12 | for | for | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 year | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 year | nummod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thirtieth | cc |
| 17 | thirtieth | thirtieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 two | conj |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 king | case |
| 20 | Artaxerxes | Artaxerxes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 king | compound |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 year | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Babylon | case |
| 23 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 king | nmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Jerusalem | conj |
| 26 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 28 king | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 asked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 asked | cc |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 days | case |
| 32 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 days | amod |
| 33 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 asked | obl |
| 34 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 went | conj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 asked | nsubj |
| 36 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 asked | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 king | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 king | det |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 leave | obl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Jerusalem | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | I | Jerusalem | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | I | year | unto the king | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | I | leave | day | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient |
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
וּבְכָל־זֶ֕ה לֹ֥א הָיִ֖יתִי בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם כִּ֡י בִּשְׁנַת֩ שְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים וּשְׁתַּ֜יִם לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֤סְתְּא מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶל֙ בָּ֣אתִי אֶל־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וּלְקֵ֥ץ יָמִ֖ים נִשְׁאַ֥לְתִּי מִן־הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃
Nehemiah 13:6: 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:412 of Mova's parse database.
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