--- title: Nehemiah 6:2 (JPS 1917) — that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying: 'Come, let us meet t… · tree and pragmatics description: that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying: 'Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono.' But they thought to do me mischief. Who acts: Sanballat, us. 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But they thought to do me mischief. **Who acts:** Sanballat, us · **What happens:** send, say, come, let, meet, think · **To what, where:** us, mischief, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Nehemiah 6:2 · 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 (Sanballat, 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:123 # text = that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying: 'Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono.' But they thought to do me mischief. 1 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 Sanballat Sanballat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Geshem Geshem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 unto unto ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 15 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 together together ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 plain plain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Ono Ono PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 30 But but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 mischief mischief NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | Sanballat and Geshem | | | | | unto me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Sanballat and Geshem *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **meet** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | in one of the villages in the plain of Ono; together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Sanballat | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | Sanballat *not said here* | mischief | me | | | | tree rules | 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} וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח סַנְבַלַּ֤ט וְגֶ֙שֶׁם֙ אֵלַ֣י לֵאמֹ֔ר לְכָ֞ה וְנִֽוָּעֲדָ֥ה יַחְדָּ֛ו בַּכְּפִירִ֖ים בְּבִקְעַ֣ת אוֹנ֑וֹ וְהֵ֙מָּה֙ חֹֽשְׁבִ֔ים לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת לִ֖י רָעָֽה׃ [Nehemiah 6:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:123` 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 6:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.122/) - next →: [Nehemiah 6:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.124/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 6:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.2/)