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title: Nehemiah 5:18 (JPS 1917) — Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep, also fowls were prepared for me; and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine; yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the service was heavy upon this people. Who acts: that, I, service. Nehemiah 5
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# Nehemiah 5:18 · JPS 1917

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Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep, also fowls were prepared for me; and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine; yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the service was heavy upon this people.

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**Who acts:** that, I, service · **What happens:** prepare, be, not demand, sort · **To what, where:** one ox, fowls, bread, wine

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This is Nehemiah 5:18 · 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, I, service), 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:120
# text = Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep, also fowls were prepared for me; and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine; yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the service was heavy upon this people.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	csubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumType=Mult	28	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
29	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
36	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
39	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	obl	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	advcl	_	_
54	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	det	_	_
56	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **prepare** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | that | one ox and six choice sheep |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prepare** | past · passive |  | fowls |  |  |  | for me | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for i=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **not** **demand** *speech: request* | past | I | the bread of the governor |  |  |  | for this | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bread=Precondition |
| 5 | **is** | past | the service |  |  |  |  | upon this people; heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | wine |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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וַאֲשֶׁר֩ הָיָ֨ה נַעֲשֶׂ֜ה לְי֣וֹם אֶחָ֗ד שׁ֣וֹר אֶחָ֞ד צֹ֠אן שֵׁשׁ־בְּרֻר֤וֹת וְצִפֳּרִים֙ נַֽעֲשׂוּ־לִ֔י וּבֵ֨ין עֲשֶׂ֧רֶת יָמִ֛ים בְּכָל־יַ֖יִן לְהַרְבֵּ֑ה וְעִם־זֶ֗ה לֶ֤חֶם הַפֶּחָה֙ לֹ֣א בִקַּ֔שְׁתִּי כִּֽי־כָֽבְדָ֥ה הָעֲבֹדָ֖ה עַל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃

[Nehemiah 5:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.5.18/)

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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:120` of Mova's parse database.

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