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title: Nehemiah 5:2 (JPS 1917) — For there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many;… · tree and pragmatics
description: For there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many; let us get for them corn, that we may eat and live.' Who acts: that, We, us. Nehemiah 5:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 5:2 · JPS 1917

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For there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many; let us get for them corn, that we may eat and live.'

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**Who acts:** that, We, us · **What happens:** be, say, let, get, eat, live · **To what, where:** us, corn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Nehemiah 5:2 · 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 (that, We, us), 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:102
# text = For there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many; let us get for them corn, that we may eat and live.'
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
8	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | that |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | We |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | infinitive | us *not said here* | corn |  |  |  | for daughters *= daughter* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent corn=Theme for they=Source |
| 6 | **eat** | may | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **live** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְיֵשׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֹמְרִ֔ים בָּנֵ֥ינוּ וּבְנֹתֵ֖ינוּ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ רַבִּ֑ים וְנִקְחָ֥ה דָגָ֖ן וְנֹאכְלָ֥ה וְנִחְיֶֽה׃

[Nehemiah 5:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.5.2/)

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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:102` 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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