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title: Nehemiah 8:7 (JPS 1917) — Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, even the Levites, caused the people to understand the Law; and the people stood in their place. Who acts: Jeshua, people. Nehemiah 8:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and 
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# Nehemiah 8:7 · JPS 1917

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Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, even the Levites, caused the people to understand the Law; and the people stood in their place.

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**Who acts:** Jeshua, people · **What happens:** cause, understand, stand · **To what, where:** people, Law, place

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This is Nehemiah 8:7 · 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 (Jeshua, people), 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:228
# text = Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, even the Levites, caused the people to understand the Law; and the people stood in their place.
1	Also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Jeshua	Jeshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Bani	Bani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Sherebiah	Sherebiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Jamin	Jamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Akkub	Akkub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Shabbethai	Shabbethai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Hodiah	Hodiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Maaseiah	Maaseiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Kelita	Kelita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Azariah	Azariah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Jozabad	Jozabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Hanan	Hanan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Pelaiah	Pelaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Levites	Levites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	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 | **cause** | past | Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin and Akkub and Shabbethai and Hodiah and Maaseiah and Kelita and Azariah and Jozabad and Hanan and Pelaiah and the Levites | the people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **understand** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | the Law |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the people |  |  | people's place |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |

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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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וְיֵשׁ֡וּעַ וּבָנִ֡י וְשֵׁרֵ֥בְיָ֣ה ׀ יָמִ֡ין עַקּ֡וּב שַׁבְּתַ֣י ׀ הֽוֹדִיָּ֡ה מַעֲשֵׂיָ֡ה קְלִיטָ֣א עֲזַרְיָה֩ יוֹזָבָ֨ד חָנָ֤ן פְּלָאיָה֙ וְהַלְוִיִּ֔ם מְבִינִ֥ים אֶת־הָעָ֖ם לַתּוֹרָ֑ה וְהָעָ֖ם עַל־עָמְדָֽם׃

[Nehemiah 8:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.8.7/)

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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:228` of Mova's parse database.

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