Nehemiah 3:35 · JPS 1917
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said: 'Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.'
Who acts: Tobiah, Jews, fox · What happens: be, say, build, go up, break down · To what, where: stone wall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 3:35 · 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 (Tobiah, Jews, fox), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 him | advmod |
| 2 | Tobiah | Tobiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 him | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ammonite | det |
| 4 | Ammonite | Ammonite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tobiah | appos |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 him | cop |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 him | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 break | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 break | punct |
| 14 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 32 wall | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 build | det |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 build | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 build | nsubj |
| 18 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 wall | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fox | det |
| 22 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | nsubj |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 break | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 break | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 break | aux |
| 28 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 29 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 break | compound:prt |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 wall | nmod:poss |
| 31 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wall | compound |
| 32 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 break | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tobiah | now | by Tobiah | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tobiah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | build | present | Jews = jew | Jews's stone wall | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product | ||||
| 4 | go up a condition, not said to happen | present | a fox | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | break down | shall | fox | Jews's stone wall | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=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
וְטוֹבִיָּ֥ה הָעַמֹּנִ֖י אֶצְל֑וֹ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר גַּ֚ם אֲשֶׁר־הֵ֣ם בּוֹנִ֔ים אִם־יַעֲלֶ֣ה שׁוּעָ֔ל וּפָרַ֖ץ חוֹמַ֥ת אַבְנֵיהֶֽם׃פ
Nehemiah 3:35: 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:79 of Mova's parse database.
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