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title: Nehemiah 2:12 (JPS 1917) — And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon. Who acts: I, God, beast. Nehemiah 2:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Nehemiah 2:12 · JPS 1917

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And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

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**Who acts:** I, God, beast · **What happens:** arise, tell, put, do, be, ride · **To what, where:** man, heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Nehemiah 2:12 · 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 (I, God, beast), 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:25
# text = And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	34	cc	_	_
34	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	_	34	expl	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	save	save	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	obl	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
47	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
48	.	.	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 | **arise** | past | I |  |  |  | night |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | I |  | any man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **put** | past | my God |  |  | my heart |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | my God *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Jerusalem | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **be** | past | any beast with me save the beast |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ride** | past | I |  |  |  |  | upon the beast | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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וָאָק֣וּם ׀ לַ֗יְלָה אֲנִי֮ וַאֲנָשִׁ֣ים ׀ מְעַט֮ עִמִּי֒ וְלֹא־הִגַּ֣דְתִּי לְאָדָ֔ם מָ֗ה אֱלֹהַי֙ נֹתֵ֣ן אֶל־לִבִּ֔י לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת לִירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וּבְהֵמָה֙ אֵ֣ין עִמִּ֔י כִּ֚י אִם־הַבְּהֵמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲנִ֖י רֹכֵ֥ב בָּֽהּ׃

[Nehemiah 2:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.12/)

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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:25` 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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