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title: Nehemiah 8:14 (JPS 1917) — And they found written in the Law, how that the LORD had commanded b… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they found written in the Law, how that the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month; Who acts: heads, LORD, children. Nehemiah 8:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 8:14 · JPS 1917

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And they found written in the Law, how that the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;

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**Who acts:** heads, LORD, children · **What happens:** find, write, command, dwell · **To what, where:** Law, booths · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Nehemiah 8:14 · 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 (heads, LORD, 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:235
# text = And they found written in the Law, how that the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	booths	booth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	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 | **find** | past | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | participle | heads *= head* *not said here* |  |  | the Law |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **command** | past · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | by Moses | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **dwell** | should | the children of Israel |  |  | booths |  | in the feast of the seventh month | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in booth=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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וַֽיִּמְצְא֖וּ כָּת֣וּב בַּתּוֹרָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ בְּיַד־מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֲשֶׁר֩ יֵשְׁב֨וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֧ל בַּסֻּכּ֛וֹת בֶּחָ֖ג בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִֽי׃

[Nehemiah 8:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.8.14/)

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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:235` 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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