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title: Nehemiah 7:64 (JPS 1917) — These sought their register, that is, the genealogy, but it was not… · tree and pragmatics
description: These sought their register, that is, the genealogy, but it was not found; therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood. Who acts: These, that, children. Nehemiah 7:64 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 7:64 · JPS 1917

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These sought their register, that is, the genealogy, but it was not found; therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

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**Who acts:** These, that, children · **What happens:** seek, be, not find, deem, pollute, put · **To what, where:** register, genealogy, children, priesthood

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This is Nehemiah 7:64 · 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 (These, that, children), 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:209
# text = These sought their register, that is, the genealogy, but it was not found; therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	register	register	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	genealogy	genealogy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	deemed	deem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
22	polluted	pollute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	priesthood	priesthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **seek** | past | These | children's register |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent register=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | the genealogy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **find** | past · passive |  | register |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **deem** | past · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pollute** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** | participle |  |  |  | the priesthood |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **register** |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | nom register «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אֵ֗לֶּה בִּקְשׁ֧וּ כְתָבָ֛ם הַמִּתְיַחְשִׂ֖ים וְלֹ֣א נִמְצָ֑א וַיְגֹֽאֲל֖וּ מִן־הַכְּהֻנָּֽה׃

[Nehemiah 7:64: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.64/)

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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:209` 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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