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title: Nehemiah 6:11 (JPS 1917) — And I said: 'Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, be… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I said: 'Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, could go into the temple and live? Who acts: I, man. Nehemiah 6:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 6:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And I said: 'Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, could go into the temple and live?

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**Who acts:** I, man · **What happens:** say, flee, be, go, live · **To what, where:** temple · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Nehemiah 6:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (I, man), 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:133
# text = And I said: 'Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, could go into the temple and live?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	flee	flee	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	27	advcl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **flee** | should | such man  I |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | I *obl*; such *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | could |  |  |  | the temple |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into temple=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **live** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וָאֹמְרָ֗ה הַאִ֤ישׁ כָּמ֙וֹנִי֙ יִבְרָ֔ח וּמִ֥י כָמ֛וֹנִי אֲשֶׁר־יָב֥וֹא אֶל־הַהֵיכָ֖ל וָחָ֑י לֹ֖א אָבֽוֹא׃

[Nehemiah 6:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.11/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And I said: 'Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, could go into the temple and live?**
2. [I will not go in.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.134/)

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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:133` 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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