Nehemiah 4:3 · JPS 1917
But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Who acts: we, our · What happens: make, set, pray · To what, where: prayer, watch
This is Nehemiah 4:3 · 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, our), 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 made | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 5 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 8 God | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 God | nmod:poss |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 watch | det |
| 13 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obj |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 night | cc |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 them | punct |
| 20 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 them | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 because | fixed |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | we | our prayer | unto our God | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Product | |||
| 2 | set | past | we not said here | a watch | day | against Sanballat; because Sanballat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent watch=Theme against they=Destination | ||
| 3 | pray | our | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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
וַנִּתְפַּלֵּ֖ל אֶל־אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ וַנַּעֲמִ֨יד מִשְׁמָ֧ר עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם יוֹמָ֥ם וָלַ֖יְלָה מִפְּנֵיהֶֽם׃
Nehemiah 4:3: 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:85 of Mova's parse database.
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