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title: Nehemiah 8:1 (JPS 1917) — all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broa… · tree and pragmatics
description: all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel. Who acts: people, broad place, LORD. Nehemiah 8:1 in JPS 1917 with its depend
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# Nehemiah 8:1 · JPS 1917

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all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

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**Who acts:** people, broad place, LORD · **What happens:** gather, be, speak, bring, command · **To what, where:** people, book, Israel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Nehemiah 8:1 · 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 (people, broad place, LORD), 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:221
# text = all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
1	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	scribe	scribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **gather** | past | all people | people |  |  |  | as one man; into the broad place; together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient into place=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the broad place |  |  |  | before the water gate |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | people |  |  |  |  | unto Ezra | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | the book of the Law of Moses |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 5 | **command** | past · perfect | the LORD | the book of the Law of Moses | Israel |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |

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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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וַיֵּאָסְפ֤וּ כָל־הָעָם֙ כְּאִ֣ישׁ אֶחָ֔ד אֶל־הָ֣רְח֔וֹב אֲשֶׁ֖ר לִפְנֵ֣י שַֽׁעַר־הַמָּ֑יִם וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ לְעֶזְרָ֣א הַסֹּפֵ֔ר לְהָבִ֗יא אֶת־סֵ֙פֶר֙ תּוֹרַ֣ת מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Nehemiah 8:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.8.1/)

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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:221` 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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