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title: Nehemiah 8:2 (JPS 1917) — And Ezra the priest brought the Law before the congregation, both me… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ezra the priest brought the Law before the congregation, both men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. Who acts: Ezra. Nehemiah 8:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 8:2 · JPS 1917

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And Ezra the priest brought the Law before the congregation, both men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

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**Who acts:** Ezra · **What happens:** bring, hear · **To what, where:** Law, congregation

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This is Nehemiah 8:2 · 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 (Ezra), 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:222
# text = And Ezra the priest brought the Law before the congregation, both men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc:preconj	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	13	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **bring** | past | Ezra | the Law |  | the congregation both men and women |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent law=Theme before congregation=Destination |
| 2 | **hear** | could |  |  |  |  | day | with understanding | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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וַיָּבִ֣יא עֶזְרָ֣א הַ֠כֹּהֵן אֶֽת־הַתּוֹרָ֞ה לִפְנֵ֤י הַקָּהָל֙ מֵאִ֣ישׁ וְעַד־אִשָּׁ֔ה וְכֹ֖ל מֵבִ֣ין לִשְׁמֹ֑עַ בְּי֥וֹם אֶחָ֖ד לַחֹ֥דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִֽי׃

[Nehemiah 8:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.8.2/)

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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:222` 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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