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title: Nehemiah 4:17 (JPS 1917) — So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the g… · tree and pragmatics
description: So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one that went to the water had his weapon. Who acts: men, none, one. Nehemiah 4:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 4:17 · JPS 1917

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So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one that went to the water had his weapon.

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**Who acts:** men, none, one · **What happens:** follow, put off, go, have · **To what, where:** me, clothes, water, weapon

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This is Nehemiah 4:17 · 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 (men, none, one), 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:100
# text = So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one that went to the water had his weapon.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
2	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	3	cc:preconj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	26	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	26	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **follow** | past | the men of the guard | me |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **put off** | past | none | our clothes |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent clothes=Goal |
| 3 | **go** | past | every one |  |  | the water |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | every one | half's weapon |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=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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וְאֵ֨ין אֲנִ֜י וְאַחַ֣י וּנְעָרַ֗י וְאַנְשֵׁ֤י הַמִּשְׁמָר֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אַחֲרַ֔י אֵין־אֲנַ֥חְנוּ פֹשְׁטִ֖ים בְּגָדֵ֑ינוּ אִ֖ישׁ שִׁלְח֥וֹ הַמָּֽיִם׃ס

[Nehemiah 4:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.4.17/)

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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:100` 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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