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title: Nehemiah 9:15 (JPS 1917) — and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest f… · tree and pragmatics
description: and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst command them that they should go in to possess the land which Thou hadst lifted up Thy hand to give them. Who acts: commandments, Thou. Nehemiah 9:15 in JPS 1917 with i
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# Nehemiah 9:15 · JPS 1917

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and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst command them that they should go in to possess the land which Thou hadst lifted up Thy hand to give them.

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**Who acts:** commandments, Thou · **What happens:** give, bring, command, go in, possess, lift up · **To what, where:** bread, commandments, heaven, water, rock, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Nehemiah 9:15 · 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 (commandments, Thou), 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:256
# text = and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst command them that they should go in to possess the land which Thou hadst lifted up Thy hand to give them.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	gavest	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	broughtest	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obj	_	_
39	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nsubj	_	_
40	hadst	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	acl:relcl	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	iobj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past |  | bread | commandments *= commandment* | heaven |  | for commandments's hunger for commandments's thirst | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bread=Theme for hunger=Asset |
| 2 | **bring** | past |  | water |  | the rock |  | for commandments *= commandment*; forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out rock=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **command** | past · do-support |  | commandments *= commandment* |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go in** | should | commandments *= commandment* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **possess** | to-infinitive | commandments *= commandment* *not said here* | the land |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme |
| 6 | **lift up** | past · perfect | Thou | the land |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent which=Theme hand=Destination |
| 7 | **give** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  | commandments *= commandment* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 8 | **hunger** |  | commandments *= commandment* |  |  |  |  | for commandments's thirst | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
| 9 | **thirst** |  | commandments *= commandment* |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state 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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וְ֠לֶחֶם מִשָּׁמַ֜יִם נָתַ֤תָּה לָהֶם֙ לִרְעָבָ֔ם וּמַ֗יִם מִסֶּ֛לַע הוֹצֵ֥אתָ לָהֶ֖ם לִצְמָאָ֑ם וַתֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֗ם לָבוֹא֙ לָרֶ֣שֶׁת אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־נָשָׂ֥אתָ אֶת־יָדְךָ֖ לָתֵ֥ת לָהֶֽם׃

[Nehemiah 9:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.15/)

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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:256` of Mova's parse database.

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