Nehemiah 13:18 · JPS 1917
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.'
Who acts: God, ye · What happens: not bring, bring, profane · To what, where: evil, more wrath, sabbath
This is Nehemiah 13:18 · 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 (God, 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Did | advmod |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Did | nsubj |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 1 Did | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bring | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 bring | advmod |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 God | nmod:poss |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Did | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 evil | det:predet |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 evil | det |
| 15 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 us | case |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 city | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 city | cc |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 city | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 city | det |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 us | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| 24 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 26 bring | cc |
| 25 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 bring | nsubj |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | conj |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 wrath | amod |
| 28 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obj |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 Israel | case |
| 30 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obl |
| 31 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 32 profaning | mark |
| 32 | profaning | profane | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 bring | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sabbath | det |
| 34 | sabbath | sabbath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 profaning | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=assert, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring | past · do-support | our God | all evil | upon us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | present | ye | more wrath | upon Israel | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme | |||
| 3 | profane | gerund | ye not said here | the sabbath | 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
הֲל֨וֹא כֹ֤ה עָשׂוּ֙ אֲבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וַיָּבֵ֨א אֱלֹהֵ֜ינוּ עָלֵ֗ינוּ אֵ֚ת כָּל־הָרָעָ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את וְעַ֖ל הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֑את וְאַתֶּ֞ם מוֹסִיפִ֤ים חָרוֹן֙ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְחַלֵּ֖ל אֶת־הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃פ
Nehemiah 13:18: 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:424 of Mova's parse database.
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