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title: Nehemiah 9:9 (JPS 1917) — And Thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea; Who acts: Thou, fathers. Nehemiah 9:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 9:9 · JPS 1917

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And Thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;

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**Who acts:** Thou, fathers · **What happens:** see, hear, afflict, cry · **To what, where:** affliction, Egypt, cry, fathers

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This is Nehemiah 9:9 · 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, fathers), 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:250
# text = And Thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sawest	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	heardest	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
19	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	;	;	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 | **see** | past | Thou | the affliction of our fathers |  | Egypt |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer affliction=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Thou *not said here* | fathers's cry |  |  |  | by the Red Sea | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |
| 3 | **afflict** |  |  | our fathers |  |  |  |  | nom affliction «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **cry** |  | fathers *= father* |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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וַתֵּ֛רֶא אֶת־עֳנִ֥י אֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם וְאֶת־זַעֲקָתָ֥ם שָׁמַ֖עְתָּ עַל־יַם־סֽוּף׃

[Nehemiah 9:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.9/)

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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:250` 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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