Nehemiah 4:4 · JPS 1917

And Judah said: 'The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.'

Who acts: Judah, much rubbish, we · What happens: say, decay, be, not be, build · To what, where: strength, wall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Nehemiah 4:4 · 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 (Judah, much rubbish, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 strength	det
7	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 decayed	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bearers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bearers	det
10	bearers	bearer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 strength	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 burdens	case
12	burdens	burden	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bearers	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 decayed	aux:pass
14	decayed	decay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 is	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 is	expl
18	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 decayed	conj
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rubbish	amod
20	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 is	nsubj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 able	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 able	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 able	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 able	advmod
27	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 decayed	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 build	mark
29	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wall	det
31	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 build	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Judah				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	decay	present · passive		the strength of the bearers of burdens			tree rules
3	be	present	much rubbish		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	present	we			able property	tree rules
5	build	to-infinitive	we not said here	the wall			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product

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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוּדָ֗ה כָּשַׁל֙ כֹּ֣חַ הַסַּבָּ֔ל וְהֶעָפָ֖ר הַרְבֵּ֑ה וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ לֹ֣א נוּכַ֔ל לִבְנ֖וֹת בַּחוֹמָֽה׃

Nehemiah 4:4: 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:86 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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