Nehemiah 4:15 · JPS 1917

So we wrought in the work; and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

Who acts: we, half, stars, morning · What happens: wrought, hold, appear, rise · To what, where: work, spears, rising

This is Nehemiah 4:15 · 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, half, stars, morning), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 wrought	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wrought	nsubj
3	wrought	wrought	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 work	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrought	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 held	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 held	cc
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 held	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 half	nmod
12	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrought	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spears	det
14	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 held	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 rising	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rising	det
17	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 morning	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 morning	det
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rising	nmod
21	till	till	ADP	_	24 appeared	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stars	det
23	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 appeared	nsubj
24	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 held	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrought	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wrought	past	we		the work	tree rules
2	hold	past	half of places	the spears	the rising of the morning	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme
3	appear	past	the stars			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rise		the morning			nom rising «event intransitive»: of=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

וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ עֹשִׂ֣ים בַּמְּלָאכָ֑ה וְחֶצְיָ֗ם מַחֲזִיקִים֙ בָּֽרְמָחִ֔ים מֵעֲל֣וֹת הַשַּׁ֔חַר עַ֖ד צֵ֥את הַכּוֹכָבִֽים׃

Nehemiah 4:15: 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:98 of Mova's parse database.

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