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title: Nehemiah 5:16 (JPS 1917) — Yea, also I set hand to the work of this wall, neither bought we any… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yea, also I set hand to the work of this wall, neither bought we any land; and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work. Who acts: I, we, wall. Nehemiah 5:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 5:16 · JPS 1917

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Yea, also I set hand to the work of this wall, neither bought we any land; and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

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**Who acts:** I, we, wall · **What happens:** set, buy, gather, work · **To what, where:** hand, land, servants

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This is Nehemiah 5:16 · 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 (I, we, wall), 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:118
# text = Yea, also I set hand to the work of this wall, neither bought we any land; and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
1	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
15	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
26	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **set** | past | I | hand |  |  |  | to the work of this wall | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hand=Result |
| 2 | **buy** | past | we | any land |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
| 3 | **gather** | past · passive |  | my servants |  |  |  | unto the work; thither *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **work** |  | this wall |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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וְ֠גַם בִּמְלֶ֜אכֶת הַחוֹמָ֤ה הַזֹּאת֙ הֶחֱזַ֔קְתִּי וְשָׂדֶ֖ה לֹ֣א קָנִ֑ינוּ וְכָל־נְעָרַ֔י קְבוּצִ֥ים שָׁ֖ם עַל־הַמְּלָאכָֽה׃

[Nehemiah 5:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.5.16/)

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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:118` 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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