Nehemiah 3:36 · JPS 1917

Hear, O our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up to spoiling in a land of captivity;

Who acts: you · What happens: hear, despise, turn back, give up, spoil · To what, where: we, reproach, Jews, land

This is Nehemiah 3:36 · 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 (you), 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	Hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 God	punct
3	O	o	INTJ	_	5 God	discourse
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 God	nmod:poss
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hear	vocative
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 despised	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 despised	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 despised	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 despised	aux:pass
10	despised	despise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hear	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 turn	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turn	cc
13	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hear	conj
14	back	back	ADP	_	13 turn	compound:prt
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 reproach	nmod:poss
16	reproach	reproach	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turn	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 head	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 head	amod
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turn	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 give	cc
23	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 turn	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 give	compound:prt
26	to	to	SCONJ	_	27 spoiling	mark
27	spoiling	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 give	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 land	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 land	det
30	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spoiling	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 captivity	case
32	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 land	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Hear	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	imperative	you not said here			our God vocative	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	despise	present · passive		we			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	turn back	infinitive	you not said here	Jews's reproach		upon Jews's own head	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reproach=Theme
4	give up	infinitive	you not said here	Jews = jew			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source
5	spoil	gerund	you not said here		a land of captivity		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

שְׁמַ֤ע אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ כִּֽי־הָיִ֣ינוּ בוּזָ֔ה וְהָשֵׁ֥ב חֶרְפָּתָ֖ם אֶל־רֹאשָׁ֑ם וּתְנֵ֥ם לְבִזָּ֖ה בְּאֶ֥רֶץ שִׁבְיָֽה׃

Nehemiah 3:36: 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:80 of Mova's parse database.

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