Nehemiah 13:11 · JPS 1917
Then contended I with the rulers, and said: 'Why is the house of God forsaken?' And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
Who acts: I · What happens: contend, say, forsake, gather, set · To what, where: house, chambers, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 13:11 · 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 contended | advmod |
| 2 | contended | contend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 contended | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 rulers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rulers | det |
| 6 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 contended | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 contended | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 forsaken | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 forsaken | punct |
| 12 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 forsaken | advmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 forsaken | aux:pass |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forsaken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod |
| 18 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 forsaken | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 forsaken | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gathered | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 gathered | nsubj |
| 23 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 contended | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gathered | obj |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 gathered | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 set | cc |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gathered | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 set | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 place | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 place | nmod:poss |
| 32 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 contended | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contend | past | I | then | with the rulers | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ruler=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | forsake | present · passive | the house of God | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | gather | past | I | chambers = chamber | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | set | past | I not said here | chambers = chamber | chambers's place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in place=Destination |
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
וָאָרִ֙יבָה֙ אֶת־הַסְּגָנִ֔ים וָאֹ֣מְרָ֔ה מַדּ֖וּעַ נֶעֱזַ֣ב בֵּית־הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וָֽאֶ֨קְבְּצֵ֔םוָֽאַעֲמִדֵ֖ם עַל־עָמְדָֽם׃
Nehemiah 13:11: 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:417 of Mova's parse database.
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