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title: Nehemiah 7:2 (JPS 1917) — that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the cast… · tree and pragmatics
description: that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many. Who acts: I, wall. Nehemiah 7:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 7:2 · JPS 1917

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that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

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**Who acts:** I, wall · **What happens:** give, charge, be, fear · **To what, where:** brother, Jerusalem, faithful man, God, many

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This is Nehemiah 7:2 · 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 (I, wall), 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:145
# text = that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	Hanani	Hanani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Hananiah	Hananiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	above	above	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | I | my brother and Hananiah |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 2 | **charge** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | Jerusalem |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over jerusalem=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is a** | past | wall | a faithful man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fear** | past | wall *not said here* | God |  | many |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |

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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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וָאֲצַוֶּ֞ה אֶת־חֲנָ֣נִי אָחִ֗י וְאֶת־חֲנַנְיָ֛ה שַׂ֥ר הַבִּירָ֖ה עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם כִּי־הוּא֙ כְּאִ֣ישׁ אֱמֶ֔ת וְיָרֵ֥א אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים מֵרַבִּֽים׃

[Nehemiah 7:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.2/)

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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:145` 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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