Nehemiah 13:24 · JPS 1917

and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

Who acts: children · What happens: speak, not speak, accord · To what, where: speech, language, Ashdod · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 13:24 · 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 (children), 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	_	4 spoke	cc
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 children	nmod:poss
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	half	half	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 speech	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 speech	det
8	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Ashdod	case
10	Ashdod	Ashdod	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 speech	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 speak	cc
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 speak	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 speak	advmod
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 spoke	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 language	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Jews	det
18	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 language	nmod:poss
19	'	's	PART	_	18 Jews	case
20	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speak	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 language	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 language	cc
23	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 language	case
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 according	fixed
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 language	det
26	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speak	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 people	case
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 people	det
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 language	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Jews's children		the speech of Ashdod	half property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not speak speech: other	could	Jews's children not said here		the Jews's language		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	speak			Ashdod			nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

וּבְנֵיהֶ֗ם חֲצִי֙ מְדַבֵּ֣ר אַשְׁדּוֹדִ֔ית וְאֵינָ֥ם מַכִּירִ֖ים לְדַבֵּ֣ר יְהוּדִ֑ית וְכִלְשׁ֖וֹן עַ֥ם וָעָֽם׃

Nehemiah 13:24: 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:431 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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