--- title: Nehemiah 9:5 (JPS 1917) — Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah,… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said: 'Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting; and let them say: Blessed be Thy glorious Name, that is exalted above all blessing and praise. 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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, Jeshua, Thy), 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:246 # text = Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said: 'Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting; and let them say: Blessed be Thy glorious Name, that is exalted above all blessing and praise. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Levites Levites PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Jeshua Jeshua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 Kadmiel Kadmiel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Bani Bani PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Hashabneiah Hashabneiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Sherebiah Sherebiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Hodiah Hodiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Shebaniah Shebaniah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 Pethahiah Pethahiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 everlasting everlasting NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 everlasting everlasting NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 : : PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 44 Blessed bless VERB VBN Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Pass 42 ccomp _ _ 45 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 aux:pass _ _ 46 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 glorious glorious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 Name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 exalted exalt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 acl:relcl _ _ 53 above above ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 55 det _ _ 55 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 conj _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Levites and Jeshua and Kadmiel and Bani and Hashabneiah and Sherebiah and Hodiah and Shebaniah and Pethahiah | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stand up** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bless** | infinitive | | the LORD | | everlasting | | to everlasting | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | | Jeshua | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Jeshua *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **bless** | infinitive · passive | | Thy glorious Name | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **exalt** | present · passive | | Thy glorious Name | | all blessing and praise | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 8 | **name** | | Thy | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ הַלְוִיִּ֡ם יֵשׁ֣וּעַ וְ֠קַדְמִיאֵל בָּנִ֨י חֲשַׁבְנְיָ֜ה שֵׁרֵֽבְיָ֤ה הֽוֹדִיָּה֙ שְׁבַנְיָ֣ה פְתַֽחְיָ֔ה ק֗וּמוּ בָּרֲכוּ֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם מִן־הָעוֹלָ֖ם עַד־הָעוֹלָ֑ם וִיבָֽרְכוּ֙ שֵׁ֣ם כְּבוֹדֶ֔ךָ וּמְרוֹמַ֥ם עַל־כָּל־בְּרָכָ֖ה וּתְהִלָּֽה׃ [Nehemiah 9:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:246` 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. - ← previous: [Nehemiah 9:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.245/) - next →: [Nehemiah 9:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.247/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 9:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.5/)