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title: Nehemiah 1:1 (JPS 1917) — THE WORDS of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. · tree and pragmatics
description: THE WORDS of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Nehemiah 1:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 1:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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THE WORDS of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.

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**What happens:** word · **To what, where:** Nehemiah

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This is Nehemiah 1:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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: 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:NEH:0
# text = THE WORDS of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	WORDS	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Nehemiah	Nehemiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Hacaliah	Hacaliah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **word** |  |  | Nehemiah |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#hebrew}

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דִּבְרֵ֥י נְחֶמְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חֲכַלְיָ֑ה וַיְהִ֤י בְחֹֽדֶשׁ־כִּסְלֵיו֙ שְׁנַ֣ת עֶשְׂרִ֔ים וַאֲנִ֥י הָיִ֖יתִי בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן הַבִּירָֽה׃

[Nehemiah 1:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.1.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **THE WORDS of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.**
2. [Now it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the castle,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.1/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:0` 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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