Nehemiah 13:17 · JPS 1917
Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them: 'What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
Who acts: I, evil thing, ye · What happens: contend, say, be, do, profane · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 13:17 · 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, evil thing, ye), 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 | 3 contended | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 contended | nsubj |
| 3 | contended | contend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 nobles | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nobles | det |
| 6 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 contended | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Judah | case |
| 8 | Judah | Judah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 nobles | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 contended | conj |
| 12 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 this | punct |
| 16 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 this | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 this | cop |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 said | ccomp |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 do | obj |
| 22 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 do | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 this | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 profane | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 profane | cc |
| 26 | profane | profane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 day | det |
| 28 | sabbath | sabbath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 day | compound |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 profane | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 contended | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contend | past | I | then | with the nobles of Judah | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with noble=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I not said here | unto nobles = noble | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | what evil thing | this | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | present | ye | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | profane | present | ye not said here | day | tree rules |
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
וָאָרִ֕יבָה אֵ֖ת חֹרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֑ה וָאֹמְרָ֣ה לָהֶ֗ם מָֽה־הַדָּבָ֨ר הָרָ֤ע הַזֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אַתֶּ֣ם עֹשִׂ֔ים וּֽמְחַלְּלִ֖ים אֶת־י֥וֹם הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃
Nehemiah 13:17: 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:423 of Mova's parse database.
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