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title: Nehemiah 9:18 (JPS 1917) — Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said: 'This is thy G… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said: 'This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations; Who acts: commandments, This, God. Nehemiah 9:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 9:18 · JPS 1917

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Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said: 'This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

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**Who acts:** commandments, This, God · **What happens:** make, say, be, bring up, wrought · **To what, where:** molten calf, wonders, God, thee, Egypt, great provocations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Nehemiah 9:18 · 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, This, God), 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:259
# text = Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said: 'This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
1	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
16	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	provocations	provocation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect | commandments *= commandment* | a molten calf | wonders *= wonder* |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary calf=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | This | thy God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring up** | past | thy God | thee |  | Egypt |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 5 | **wrought** | past · perfect | thy God *not said here* | great provocations |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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אַ֗ף כִּֽי־עָשׂ֤וּ לָהֶם֙ עֵ֣גֶל מַסֵּכָ֔ה וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ זֶ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶעֶלְךָ֖ מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּ נֶאָצ֖וֹת גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃

[Nehemiah 9:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.18/)

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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:259` 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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