--- title: Nehemiah 5:13 (JPS 1917) — Also I shook out my lap, and said: 'So God shake out every man from… · tree and pragmatics description: Also I shook out my lap, and said: 'So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied.' And all the congregation said: 'Amen', and praised the LORD. Who acts: I, God, man, congregation. 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And all the congregation said: 'Amen', and praised the LORD. **Who acts:** I, God, man, congregation · **What happens:** shake out, say, not perform, empty, praise · **To what, where:** lap, man, labour, promise, God, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Nehemiah 5:13 · 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: who acts (I, God, man, congregation), 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:114 # text = Also I shook out my lap, and said: 'So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied.' And all the congregation said: 'Amen', and praised the LORD. 1 Also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 lap lap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 So so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 shake shake VERB VB Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 performeth perform VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 33 even even ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 thus thus ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 shaken shake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 38 out out ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 emptied empty VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 44 And and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 47 det:predet _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 congregation congregation NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 48 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 49 : : PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 50 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ _ 51 Amen amen INTJ UH _ 48 ccomp _ _ 52 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 praised praise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 conj _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 obj _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shake out** | past | I | my lap | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lap=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **shake out** | infinitive | God | every man | | God's labour | | from God's house | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent man=Theme from house=Trajectory | | 4 | **not** **perform** | present | every man | this promise | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | | 5 | **shake out** | infinitive · passive | | God | | | | thus *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **empty** | participle | | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all congregation | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **praise** | past | all congregation *not said here* | the LORD | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | 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} גַּם־חָצְנִ֣י נָעַ֗רְתִּי וָֽאֹמְרָ֡ה כָּ֣כָה יְנַעֵ֪ר הָֽאֱלֹהִ֟ים אֶת־כָּל־הָאִישׁ֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹֽא־יָקִ֜ים אֶת־הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֗ה מִבֵּיתוֹ֙ וּמִ֣יגִיע֔וֹ וְכָ֛כָה יִהְיֶ֥ה נָע֖וּר וָרֵ֑ק וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ כָֽל־הַקָּהָ֜ל אָמֵ֗ן וַֽיְהַלְלוּ֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הָעָ֖ם כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃ [Nehemiah 5:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.5.13/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Also I shook out my lap, and said: 'So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied.' And all the congregation said: 'Amen', and praised the LORD.** 2. [And the people did according to this promise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.115/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:114` 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. - ← previous: [Nehemiah 5:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.113/) - next →: [Nehemiah 5:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.115/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 5:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.5.13/)