Nehemiah 4:9 · JPS 1917
And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
Who acts: rest, enemies, God, we · What happens: come, pass, hear, know, bring, return · To what, where: rest, counsel, nought, all, wall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Nehemiah 4:9 · 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 (rest, enemies, God, 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 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 heard | mark |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 known | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 known | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 known | aux:pass |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 heard | ccomp |
| 15 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 known | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brought | cc |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 brought | aux |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 23 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 nought | case |
| 25 | nought | nought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 returned | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 returned | mark |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 returned | nsubj |
| 29 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | ccomp |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 returned | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 us | case |
| 32 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 all | nmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 wall | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wall | det |
| 35 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 returned | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 one | punct |
| 37 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 one | det |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 all | appos |
| 39 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 41 work | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 work | nmod:poss |
| 41 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 one | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | 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 | come | past | rest | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | rest not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | our enemies | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | know | past · passive | rest | unto us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect | God | enemies's counsel | nought | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme to nought=Destination | |||
| 6 | return | past | we | all | the wall | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent all=Theme to wall=Destination | |||
| 7 | work | God | nom work «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
וַיְהִ֞י כַּֽאֲשֶׁר־שָׁמְע֤וּ אוֹיְבֵ֙ינוּ֙ כִּי־נ֣וֹדַֽעלָ֔נוּ וַיָּ֥פֶר הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת־עֲצָתָ֑ם וַנָּ֤שָׁב כֻּלָּ֙נוּ֙ אֶל־הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה אִ֖ישׁ אֶל־מְלַאכְתּֽוֹ׃
Nehemiah 4:9: 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:91 of Mova's parse database.
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