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title: Nehemiah 6:6 (JPS 1917) — wherein was written: 'It is reported among the nations, and Geshem s… · tree and pragmatics
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# Nehemiah 6:6 · JPS 1917

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wherein was written: 'It is reported among the nations, and Geshem saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause thou buildest the wall; and thou wouldest be their king, even according to these words.

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**Who acts:** Geshem, thou · **What happens:** write, report, say, think, rebel, build · **To what, where:** manner, wall, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Nehemiah 6:6 · 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 (Geshem, thou), 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:127
# text = wherein was written: 'It is reported among the nations, and Geshem saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause thou buildest the wall; and thou wouldest be their king, even according to these words.
1	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	csubj:pass	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Geshem	Geshem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Jews	Jew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	rebel	rebel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	29	det	_	_
29	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
30	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
31	buildest	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nsubj	_	_
37	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	even	even	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
43	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	case	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
45	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
46	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **report** | present · passive |  | manner |  |  |  | among the nations | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Geshem | manner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **rebel** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **build** | present | thou | the wall |  |  |  | for which cause | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent wall=Product for cause=Asset |
| 7 | **is a** | would | thou | Jews's king |  |  |  | accord this words | tree rules |
| 8 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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כָּת֣וּב בָּ֗הּ בַּגּוֹיִ֤ם נִשְׁמָע֙ וְגַשְׁמ֣וּ אֹמֵ֔ר אַתָּ֤ה וְהַיְּהוּדִים֙ חֹשְׁבִ֣ים לִמְר֔וֹד עַל־כֵּ֛ן אַתָּ֥ה בוֹנֶ֖ה הַחוֹמָ֑ה וְאַתָּ֗ה הֹוֶ֤ה לָהֶם֙ לְמֶ֔לֶךְ כַּדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵֽלֶּה׃

[Nehemiah 6:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.6/)

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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:127` 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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