--- title: Nehemiah 9:11 (JPS 1917) — And Thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through… · tree and pragmatics description: And Thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers Thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters. Who acts: Thou, seas. Nehemiah 9:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.252/) [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/) / [9:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.11/) / JPS 1 # Nehemiah 9:11 · JPS 1917 And Thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers Thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters. **Who acts:** Thou, seas · **What happens:** divide, go, cast · **To what, where:** sea, midst, pursuers, depths This is Nehemiah 9:11 · 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, seas), 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:252 # text = And Thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers Thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 3 didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 divide divide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 before before ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 pursuers pursuer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 28 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj _ _ 29 didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 cast cast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 depths depth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **divide** | past · do-support | Thou | the sea | | | before seas *= sea* | | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | seas *= sea* | | | the midst of the sea | | on the dry land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through midst=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **cast** | past · do-support | Thou | seas's pursuers | | the depths | | as a stone into the mighty waters | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent pursuer=Material into depth=Product | 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} וְהַיָּם֙ בָּקַ֣עְתָּ לִפְנֵיהֶ֔ם וַיַּֽעַבְר֥וּ בְתוֹךְ־הַיָּ֖ם בַּיַּבָּשָׁ֑ה וְֽאֶת־רֹ֨דְפֵיהֶ֜ם הִשְׁלַ֧כְתָּ בִמְצוֹלֹ֛ת כְּמוֹ־אֶ֖בֶן בְּמַ֥יִם עַזִּֽים׃ [Nehemiah 9:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:252` 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 9:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.251/) - next →: [Nehemiah 9:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.253/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 9:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.11/)