Nehemiah 4:10 · JPS 1917
And it came to pass from that time forth, that half of my servants wrought in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
Who acts: rest, half, rulers · What happens: come, pass, wrought, hold, be · To what, where: work, spears, house
This is Nehemiah 4:10 · 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, half, rulers), 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 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obl |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 pass | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrought | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 wrought | mark |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrought | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 servants | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 servants | nmod:poss |
| 15 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 half | nmod |
| 16 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 work | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 work | det |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 held | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 held | cc |
| 22 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 held | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 half | nmod |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wrought | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spears | det |
| 27 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 held | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 shields | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shields | det |
| 30 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 spears | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bows | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 bows | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bows | det |
| 34 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 spears | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 coats | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 coats | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 coats | det |
| 38 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 spears | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 mail | case |
| 40 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 coats | nmod | ||
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 house | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 house | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 rulers | det |
| 44 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 house | nsubj |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 house | cop |
| 46 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 49 house | case |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 house | det:predet |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 house | det |
| 49 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | conj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Judah | case |
| 51 | Judah | Judah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 house | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | 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 | time | forth property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | wrought | past | half of my servants | the work | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | half of servants | the spears and the shields and the bows and the coats of mail | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the rulers | all house | of Judah | 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 ׀ מִן־הַיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא חֲצִ֣י נְעָרַי֮ עֹשִׂ֣ים בַּמְּלָאכָה֒ וְחֶצְיָ֗ם מַחֲזִיקִים֙ וְהָרְמָחִ֣ים הַמָּגִנִּ֔ים וְהַקְּשָׁת֖וֹת וְהַשִּׁרְיֹנִ֑ים וְהַ֨שָּׂרִ֔ים אַחֲרֵ֖י כָּל־בֵּ֥ית יְהוּדָֽה׃
Nehemiah 4:10: 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:92 of Mova's parse database.
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