Nehemiah 3:38 · JPS 1917

So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof; for the people had a mind to work.

Who acts: we, people · What happens: build, join, have, work · To what, where: wall, mind

This is Nehemiah 3:38 · 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, people), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 built	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 built	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 joined	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 joined	cc
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 wall	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joined	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 joined	aux:pass
12	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 built	conj
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 joined	advmod
14	unto	unto	ADP	_	17 height	case
15	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	17 height	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 height	det
17	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joined	obl
18	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	17 height	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 joined	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mind	det
25	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 work	mark
27	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 mind	acl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 built	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	past	we	the wall		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product
2	join	past · passive		the wall	unto half height; together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	have	past	the people	a mind		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
4	work	to-infinitive	the people not said here	a mind not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

וַנִּבְנֶה֙ אֶת־הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה וַתִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר כָּל־הַחוֹמָ֖ה עַד־חֶצְיָ֑הּ וַיְהִ֧י לֵ֦ב לָעָ֖ם לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃פ

Nehemiah 3:38: 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:82 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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