Nehemiah 13:27 · JPS 1917
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?'
Who acts: we · What happens: hearken, do, break, marry · To what, where: great evil, faith, foreign women
This is Nehemiah 13:27 · 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 (we), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hearken | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hearken | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hearken | advmod |
| 4 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hearken | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hearken | xcomp |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 evil | det:predet |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 evil | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 evil | amod |
| 12 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 break | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 break | mark |
| 15 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 do | advcl |
| 16 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 break | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 God | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 God | nmod:poss |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 break | obl |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 marrying | mark |
| 21 | marrying | marry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 break | advcl |
| 22 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 women | amod |
| 23 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 marrying | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hearken | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hearken | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- other
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed indirect=1, act=other
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hearken | shall | we | then | unto you | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | we not said here | all great evil | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive | we not said here | faith | with our God | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent faith=Patient with god=Instrument | |||
| 4 | marry | gerund | we not said here | foreign women | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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
וְלָכֶ֣ם הֲנִשְׁמַ֗ע לַעֲשֹׂת֙ אֵ֣ת כָּל־הָרָעָ֤ה הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את לִמְעֹ֖ל בֵּֽאלֹהֵ֑ינוּ לְהֹשִׁ֖יב נָשִׁ֥ים נָכְרִיּֽוֹת׃
Nehemiah 13:27: 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:434 of Mova's parse database.
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