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title: Nehemiah 6:19 (JPS 1917) — And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear. Who acts: Tobiah. Nehemiah 6:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 6:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

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**Who acts:** Tobiah · **What happens:** send, put · **To what, where:** letters, me, fear

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This is Nehemiah 6:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (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:143
# text = And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Tobiah	Tobiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Tobiah | letters |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | Tobiah *not said here* | me |  | fear |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in fear=Destination |

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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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גַּ֣ם טוֹבֹתָ֗יו הָי֤וּ אֹמְרִים֙ לְפָנַ֔י וּדְבָרַ֕י הָי֥וּ מוֹצִיאִ֖ים ל֑וֹ אִגְּר֛וֹת שָׁלַ֥ח טוֹבִיָּ֖ה לְיָֽרְאֵֽנִי׃

[Nehemiah 6:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.19/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.142/)
2. **And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.**

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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:143` 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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