Nehemiah 3:34 · JPS 1917

And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said: 'What do these feeble Jews? will they restore at will? will they sacrifice? will they make an end this day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?'

Who acts: Sanballat, feeble Jews, Jews · What happens: speak, say, do, restore, sacrifice, make · To what, where: will, end, stones, heaps, Jews · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 3:34 · 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 (Sanballat, feeble Jews, Jews), 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 spoke	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 brethren	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brethren	nmod:poss
6	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spoke	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 army	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 army	det
9	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brethren	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Samaria	case
11	Samaria	Samaria	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 army	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 do	obj
18	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 Jews	det
20	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Jews	amod
21	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 do	nsubj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 restore	aux
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 restore	nsubj
25	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 do	parataxis
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 will	case
27	will	will	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 restore	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 restore	punct
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 sacrifice	aux
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sacrifice	nsubj
31	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 do	parataxis
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 sacrifice	punct
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 make	aux
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 make	nsubj
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 do	parataxis
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 end	det
37	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 make	obj
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 day	det
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 make	obl:unmarked
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	35 make	punct
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 revive	aux
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 revive	nsubj
43	revive	revive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 do	parataxis
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 stones	det
45	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 revive	obj
46	out	out	ADP	_	49 heaps	case
47	of	of	ADP	_	46 out	fixed
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 heaps	det
49	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 revive	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 rubbish	case
51	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 heaps	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 seeing	punct
53	seeing	see	SCONJ	_	56 burned	mark
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 burned	nsubj:pass
55	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 burned	aux:pass
56	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 revive	advcl
57	?	?	PUNCT	_	43 revive	punct
58	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: evaluate
voice: character
polarity: neg
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=evaluate, indirect=1, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Sanballat			before Sanballat's brethren and the army of Samaria	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Sanballat not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	present	this feeble Jews				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	restore	future	Jews = jew		will		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	sacrifice	future	Jews = jew				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	future	Jews = jew	a end		day	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product
7	revive	future	Jews = jew	the stones	the heaps of rubbish		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
8	burn	present · passive		Jews = jew			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ׀ לִפְנֵ֣י אֶחָ֗יו וְחֵיל֙ שֹֽׁמְר֔וֹן וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מָ֛ה הַיְּהוּדִ֥ים הָאֲמֵלָלִ֖ים עֹשִׂ֑ים הֲיַעַזְב֨וּ לָהֶ֤ם הֲיִזְבָּ֙חוּ֙ הַיְכַלּ֣וּ בַיּ֔וֹם הַיְחַיּ֧וּ אֶת־הָאֲבָנִ֛ים מֵעֲרֵמ֥וֹת הֶעָפָ֖ר וְהֵ֥מָּה שְׂרוּפֽוֹת׃

Nehemiah 3:34: 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:78 of Mova's parse database.

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