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title: Nehemiah 9:4 (JPS 1917) — Then stood up upon the platform of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Ka… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then stood up upon the platform of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God. Who acts: Jeshua. Nehemiah 9:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 9:4 · JPS 1917

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Then stood up upon the platform of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.

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**Who acts:** Jeshua · **What happens:** stand up, cry · **To what, where:** platform

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This is Nehemiah 9:4 · 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), 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:245
# text = Then stood up upon the platform of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Levites	Levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Jeshua	Jeshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Bani	Bani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Kadmiel	Kadmiel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Shebaniah	Shebaniah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Bunni	Bunni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Sherebiah	Sherebiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Bani	Bani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Chenani	Chenani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | Jeshua and Bani and Kadmiel and Shebaniah and Bunni and Sherebiah and Bani and Chenani |  |  | the platform of the Levites | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon platform=Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Jeshua and Bani and Kadmiel and Shebaniah and Bunni and Sherebiah and Bani and Chenani *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a loud voice; unto the LORD | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=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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וַיָּ֜קָם עַֽל־מַֽעֲלֵ֣ה הַלְוִיִּ֗ם יֵשׁ֨וּעַ וּבָנִ֜י קַדְמִיאֵ֧ל שְׁבַנְיָ֛ה בֻּנִּ֥י שֵׁרֵבְיָ֖ה בָּנִ֣י כְנָ֑נִי וַֽיִּזְעֲקוּ֙ בְּק֣וֹל גָּד֔וֹל אֶל־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃

[Nehemiah 9:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.4/)

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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:245` 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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