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title: Nehemiah 8:18 (JPS 1917) — And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a sole… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the ordinance. Who acts: children. Nehemiah 8:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 8:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the ordinance.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** keep, be, accord · **To what, where:** feast, solemn assembly

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This is Nehemiah 8:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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:241
# text = And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the ordinance.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	according	accord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	case	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ordinance	ordinance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **keep** | past | children *= child* | the feast |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | a solemn assembly |  |  | day | accord the ordinance | tree rules |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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וַ֠יִּקְרָא בְּסֵ֨פֶר תּוֹרַ֤ת הָאֱלֹהִים֙ י֣וֹם ׀ בְּי֔וֹם מִן־הַיּוֹם֙ הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן עַ֖ד הַיּ֣וֹם הָאַחֲר֑וֹן וַיַּֽעֲשׂוּ־חָג֙ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים וּבַיּ֧וֹם הַשְּׁמִינִ֛י עֲצֶ֖רֶת כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃פ

[Nehemiah 8:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.8.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the Law of God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.240/)
2. **And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the ordinance.**

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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:241` 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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