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title: Nehemiah 8:11 (JPS 1917) — So the Levites stilled all the people, saying: 'Hold your peace, for… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Levites stilled all the people, saying: 'Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.' Who acts: Levites, day, your. Nehemiah 8:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 8:11 · JPS 1917

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So the Levites stilled all the people, saying: 'Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.'

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**Who acts:** Levites, day, your · **What happens:** still, say, hold, be, grieve, pacify · **To what, where:** people, peace, ye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Nehemiah 8:11 · 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 (Levites, day, your), 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:232
# text = So the Levites stilled all the people, saying: 'Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.'
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Levites	Levites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stilled	still	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **still** | past | the Levites | all people |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Levites *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive |  | your peace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the day |  |  |  |  | holy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grieve** | infinitive · passive |  | ye |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 6 | **pacify** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state transitive»: 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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וְהַלְוִיִּ֞ם מַחְשִׁ֤ים לְכָל־הָעָם֙ לֵאמֹ֣ר הַ֔סּוּ כִּ֥י הַיּ֖וֹם קָדֹ֑שׁ וְאַל־תֵּעָצֵֽבוּ׃

[Nehemiah 8:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.8.11/)

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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:232` 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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