Nehemiah 13:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day.
Who acts: I, Levites · What happens: command, purify, come, keep, sanctify · To what, where: Levites, gates · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 13:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, Levites), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 commanded | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Levites | det |
| 5 | Levites | Levites | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 commanded | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 purify | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 purify | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 purify | aux |
| 9 | purify | purify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commanded | ccomp |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 purify | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 purify | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 keep | cc |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 come | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gates | det |
| 20 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 keep | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sanctify | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 sanctify | mark |
| 23 | sanctify | sanctify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 keep | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 day | det |
| 25 | sabbath | sabbath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 day | compound |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sanctify | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | I | the Levites | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent levites=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | purify | should | Levites | Levites | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | should | Levites | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | Levites not said here | the gates | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sanctify | to-infinitive | Levites 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
וָאֹמְרָ֣ה לַלְוִיִּ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִֽהְי֤וּ מִֽטַּהֲרִים֙ וּבָאִים֙ שֹׁמְרִ֣ים הַשְּׁעָרִ֔ים לְקַדֵּ֖שׁ אֶת־י֣וֹם הַשַּׁבָּ֑ת גַּם־זֹאת֙ זָכְרָה־לִּ֣י אֱלֹהַ֔י וְח֥וּסָה עָלַ֖י כְּרֹ֥ב חַסְדֶּֽךָ׃פ
Nehemiah 13:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day.
- Remember unto me, O my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of Thy mercy.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NEH:428 of Mova's parse database.
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