Nehemiah 4:1 · JPS 1917

But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;

Who acts: it, Sanballat, repairing, breaches · What happens: come, pass, hear, go, begin, stop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 4:1 · 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 (it, Sanballat, repairing, breaches), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 heard	mark
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 heard	mark
9	Sanballat	Sanballat	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 heard	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Tobiah	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Tobiah	cc
12	Tobiah	Tobiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sanballat	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Arabians	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Arabians	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Arabians	det
16	Arabians	arabian	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 Sanballat	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Ammonites	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Ammonites	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Ammonites	det
20	Ammonites	ammonite	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 Sanballat	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Ashdodites	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Ashdodites	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Ashdodites	det
24	Ashdodites	ashdodite	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 Sanballat	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Ashdodites	punct
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 wroth	advcl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 went	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 repairing	det
29	repairing	repairing	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 went	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 walls	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 walls	det
32	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 repairing	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Jerusalem	case
34	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 walls	nmod
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 heard	ccomp
36	forward	forward	ADV	_	35 went	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 began	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 began	cc
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 began	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 breaches	det
41	breaches	breach	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 began	nsubj
42	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 went	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	45 stopped	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 stopped	aux:pass
45	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 began	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 wroth	punct
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 wroth	advmod
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 wroth	nsubj
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 wroth	cop
50	very	very	ADV	_	51 wroth	advmod
51	wroth	wroth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	ccomp
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	it			tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	past	the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem		forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	the breaches			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	stop	to-infinitive · passive	the breaches not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»
7	is	past	breaches = breach	then	wroth property	tree rules

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

וַיְהִ֣י כַאֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׁמַ֣ע סַנְבַלַּ֡ט וְ֠טוֹבִיָּה וְהָעַרְבִ֨ים וְהָעַמֹּנִ֜ים וְהָאַשְׁדּוֹדִ֗ים כִּֽי־עָלְתָ֤ה אֲרוּכָה֙ לְחֹמ֣וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם כִּי־הֵחֵ֥לּוּ הַפְּרֻצִ֖ים לְהִסָּתֵ֑ם וַיִּ֥חַר לָהֶ֖ם מְאֹֽד׃

Nehemiah 4:1: 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:83 of Mova's parse database.

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