--- title: Nehemiah 9:8 (JPS 1917) — and foundest his heart faithful before Thee, and madest a covenant w… · tree and pragmatics description: and foundest his heart faithful before Thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, even to give it unto his seed, and hast performed Thy words; for Thou art righteous; Who acts: Thou, Thy. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.249/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Nehemiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/) / [chapter 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/9/) / [9:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.8/) / JPS 1 # Nehemiah 9:8 · JPS 1917 and foundest his heart faithful before Thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, even to give it unto his seed, and hast performed Thy words; for Thou art righteous; **Who acts:** Thou, Thy · **What happens:** find, make, give, perform, be, word · **To what, where:** heart, covenant, land, words This is Nehemiah 9:8 · 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 (Thou, 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:249 # text = and foundest his heart faithful before Thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, even to give it unto his seed, and hast performed Thy words; for Thou art righteous; 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 foundest find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 6 before before ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 madest make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Canaanite canaanite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Hittite hittite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Amorite amorite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Perizzite Perizzite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Jebusite Jebusite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Girgashite Girgashite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 even even ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 unto unto ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 performed perform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 conj _ _ 52 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obj _ _ 54 ; ; PUNCT : _ 58 punct _ _ 55 for for SCONJ IN _ 58 mark _ _ 56 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 58 nsubj _ _ 57 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 cop _ _ 58 righteous righteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 59 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | | God's heart | | | | faithful *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Topic | | 2 | **make** | past | | a covenant | | | | with God | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset covenant=Product | | 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | | the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | | land | | | | unto God's seed | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **perform** | present · perfect | | Thy words | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | Thou | | | | | righteous *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **word** | | Thy | | | | | | nom word «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} וּמָצָ֣אתָ אֶת־לְבָבוֹ֮ נֶאֱמָ֣ן לְפָנֶיךָ֒ וְכָר֨וֹת עִמּ֜וֹ הַבְּרִ֗ית לָתֵ֡ת אֶת־אֶרֶץ֩ הַכְּנַעֲנִ֨י הַחִתִּ֜י הָאֱמֹרִ֧י וְהַפְּרִזִּ֛י וְהַיְבוּסִ֥י וְהַגִּרְגָּשִׁ֖י לָתֵ֣ת לְזַרְע֑וֹ וַתָּ֙קֶם֙ אֶת־דְּבָרֶ֔יךָ כִּ֥י צַדִּ֖יק אָֽתָּה׃ [Nehemiah 9:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:249` 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 9:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.248/) - next →: [Nehemiah 9:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.250/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 9:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.8/)