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title: Nehemiah 5:10 (JPS 1917) — I pray you, let us leave off this exaction. · tree and pragmatics
description: I pray you, let us leave off this exaction. Who acts: I, us. Nehemiah 5:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 5:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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I pray you, let us leave off this exaction.

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**Who acts:** I, us · **What happens:** pray, let, leave off · **To what, where:** you, us, exaction

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This is Nehemiah 5:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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: who acts (I, 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:111
# text = I pray you, let us leave off this exaction.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	exaction	exaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave off** | infinitive | us *not said here* | this exaction |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exaction=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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וְגַם־אֲנִי֙ אַחַ֣י וּנְעָרַ֔י נֹשִׁ֥ים בָּהֶ֖ם כֶּ֣סֶף וְדָגָ֑ן נַֽעַזְבָה־נָּ֖א אֶת־הַמַּשָּׁ֥א הַזֶּֽה׃

[Nehemiah 5:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.5.10/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, have lent them money and corn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.110/)
2. **I pray you, let us leave off this exaction.**

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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:111` 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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