--- title: Nehemiah 6:12 (JPS 1917) — And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; for he pronounced th… · tree and pragmatics description: And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me, whereas Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. Who acts: I, God, Tobiah. 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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, God, Tobiah), 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:135 # text = And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me, whereas Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 discerned discern VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 lo lo INTJ UH _ 12 discourse _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 pronounced pronounce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 prophecy prophecy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 against against ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 whereas whereas SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 Tobiah Tobiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 Sanballat Sanballat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 hired hire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **discern** | past | I | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **send** | past · perfect | God | man | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **pronounce** | past | God | this prophecy | | | | against me | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophecy=Theme | | 4 | **hire** | past · perfect | Tobiah and Sanballat | man | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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} וָאַכִּ֕ירָה וְהִנֵּ֥ה לֹֽא־אֱלֹהִ֖ים שְׁלָח֑וֹ כִּ֤י הַנְּבוּאָה֙ דִּבֶּ֣ר עָלַ֔י וְטוֹבִיָּ֥ה וְסַנְבַלַּ֖ט שְׂכָרֽוֹ׃ [Nehemiah 6:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:135` 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 6:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.134/) - next →: [Nehemiah 6:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.136/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 6:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.12/)