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title: Nehemiah 1:2 (JPS 1917) — that Hanani, one of my brethren, came out of Judah, he and certain m… · tree and pragmatics
description: that Hanani, one of my brethren, came out of Judah, he and certain men; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, that were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. Who acts: Hanani, I, Jews. Nehemiah 1:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 1:2 · JPS 1917

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that Hanani, one of my brethren, came out of Judah, he and certain men; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, that were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** Hanani, I, Jews · **What happens:** come out, ask, escape, leave · **To what, where:** Judah, men, that

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This is Nehemiah 1:2 · 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 (Hanani, I, Jews), 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:2
# text = that Hanani, one of my brethren, came out of Judah, he and certain men; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, that were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	Hanani	Hanani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	concerning	concern	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	concerning	concern	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | Hanani | Judah |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient judah=Result |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | I |  | men *= man* |  |  | concern the Jews and Jerusalem | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **escape** | past · perfect | the Jews and Jerusalem |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | past · passive |  | that |  |  |  | of the captivity | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of captivity=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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וַיָּבֹ֨א חֲנָ֜נִי אֶחָ֧ד מֵאַחַ֛י ה֥וּא וַאֲנָשִׁ֖ים מִֽיהוּדָ֑ה וָאֶשְׁאָלֵ֞ם עַל־הַיְּהוּדִ֧ים הַפְּלֵיטָ֛ה אֲשֶֽׁר־נִשְׁאֲר֥וּ מִן־הַשֶּׁ֖בִי וְעַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[Nehemiah 1:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.1.2/)

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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:2` 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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