Nehemiah 13:21 · JPS 1917

Then I forewarned them, and said unto them: 'Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you.' From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

Who acts: I, ye, merchants · What happens: forewarn, say, lodge, lay, come · To what, where: merchants, hands, sabbath · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 13:21 · 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, ye, merchants), 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 forewarned	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 forewarned	nsubj
3	forewarned	forewarn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forewarned	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forewarned	conj
8	unto	unto	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 lodge	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 lodge	punct
12	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 lodge	advmod
13	lodge	lodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 lodge	nsubj
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 wall	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wall	det
17	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lodge	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 lodge	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 do	mark
20	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 do	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 lay	advcl
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 again	advmod
23	again	again	ADV	_	21 do	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 lay	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 lay	aux
27	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lay	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 lay	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forewarned	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 forewarned	punct
33	From	from	ADP	_	35 time	case
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 time	det
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	obl
36	forth	forth	ADV	_	37 came	advmod
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forewarned	parataxis
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 came	nsubj
39	no	no	ADV	_	40 more	advmod
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 came	advmod
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 sabbath	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sabbath	det
43	sabbath	sabbath	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forewarned	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, indirect=0, polarity=none, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forewarn	past	I	merchants = merchant	then		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	I not said here			unto merchants = merchant	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lodge	infinitive	ye			about the wall	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about wall=Destination
4	lay	future	I	hands		on you	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on you=Destination
5	come	past	merchants = merchant		on the sabbath; time	forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sabbath=Location

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

וָאָעִ֣ידָה בָהֶ֗ם וָאֹמְרָ֤ה אֲלֵיהֶם֙ מַדּ֜וּעַ אַתֶּ֤ם לֵנִים֙ נֶ֣גֶד הַחוֹמָ֔ה אִם־תִּשְׁנ֕וּ יָ֖ד אֶשְׁלַ֣ח בָּכֶ֑ם מִן־הָעֵ֣ת הַהִ֔יא לֹא־בָ֖אוּ בַּשַּׁבָּֽת׃ס

Nehemiah 13:21: 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:427 of Mova's parse database.

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