--- title: Nehemiah 6:8 (JPS 1917) — Then I sent unto him, saying: 'There are no such things done as thou… · tree and pragmatics description: Then I sent unto him, saying: 'There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.' Who acts: I, such things, thou. 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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, such things, 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:130 # text = Then I sent unto him, saying: 'There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.' 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 13 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 15 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sayest say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 22 feignest feign VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 out out ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | I | | | | then | unto king | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **does** | present | no such things | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | participle | | no such things *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | thou | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **feign** | present | thou | things *= thing* | | thine own heart | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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} וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֤ה אֵלָיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לֹ֤א נִֽהְיָה֙ כַּדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֖ר אַתָּ֣ה אוֹמֵ֑ר כִּ֥י מִֽלִּבְּךָ֖ אַתָּ֥ה בוֹדָֽאם׃ [Nehemiah 6:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:130` 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 6:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.129/) - next →: [Nehemiah 6:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.131/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 6:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.8/)