--- title: Nehemiah 6:9 (JPS 1917) — For they all would have us afraid, saying: 'Their hands shall be wea… · tree and pragmatics description: For they all would have us afraid, saying: 'Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.' But now, strengthen Thou my hands. Who acts: things, Thou. 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But now, strengthen Thou my hands. **Who acts:** things, Thou · **What happens:** have, say, weaken, not do, strengthen · **To what, where:** us, hands, work, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Nehemiah 6:9 · 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 (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:131 # text = For they all would have us afraid, saying: 'Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.' But now, strengthen Thou my hands. 1 For for CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 12 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 weakened weaken VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 ccomp _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 28 But but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 strengthen strengthen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 32 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nsubj _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | would | things *= thing* | us | | | | afraid *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **weaken** | shall · passive | | things's hands | | the work | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **not** **do** | infinitive · passive | | hand | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **strengthen** | infinitive | Thou | my hands | | | now | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=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} כִּ֣י כֻלָּ֗ם מְיָֽרְאִ֤ים אוֹתָ֙נוּ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יִרְפּ֧וּ יְדֵיהֶ֛ם מִן־הַמְּלָאכָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א תֵעָשֶׂ֑ה וְעַתָּ֖ה חַזֵּ֥ק אֶת־יָדָֽי׃ [Nehemiah 6:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:131` 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 6:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.130/) - next →: [Nehemiah 6:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.132/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 6:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.9/)