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title: Nehemiah 8:15 (JPS 1917) — and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and i… · tree and pragmatics
description: and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying: 'Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.' Who acts: children. Nehemia
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# Nehemiah 8:15 · JPS 1917

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and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying: 'Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.'

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** publish, proclaim, say, go, fetch, make · **To what, where:** cities, olive branches, booths, olive · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Nehemiah 8:15 · 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 (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:236
# text = and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying: 'Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	publish	publish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	olive	olive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	olive	olive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
53	booths	booth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
57	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	advcl	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
60	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **publish** | should | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **proclaim** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  | children's cities and Jerusalem |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto the mount; forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fetch** | infinitive |  | olive branches and branches of wild olive and myrtle branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | booths |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset booth=Product |
| 7 | **write** | present · passive |  | olive |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר יַשְׁמִ֗יעוּ וְיַעֲבִ֨ירוּ ק֥וֹל בְּכָל־עָרֵיהֶם֮ וּבִירוּשָׁלִַ֣ם לֵאמֹר֒ צְא֣וּ הָהָ֗ר וְהָבִ֙יאוּ֙ עֲלֵי־זַ֙יִת֙ וַעֲלֵי־עֵ֣ץ שֶׁ֔מֶן וַעֲלֵ֤י הֲדַס֙ וַעֲלֵ֣י תְמָרִ֔ים וַעֲלֵ֖י עֵ֣ץ עָבֹ֑ת לַעֲשֹׂ֥ת סֻכֹּ֖ת כַּכָּתֽוּב׃פ

[Nehemiah 8:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.8.15/)

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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:236` 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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