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title: Nehemiah 9:19 (JPS 1917) — yet Thou in Thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderne… · tree and pragmatics
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# Nehemiah 9:19 · JPS 1917

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yet Thou in Thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go.

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**Who acts:** Thou, pillar, commandments · **What happens:** not forsake, not depart, lead, show, go · **To what, where:** commandments, manifold mercies, way, light

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This is Nehemiah 9:19 · 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, pillar, commandments), 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:260
# text = yet Thou in Thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go.
1	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	manifold	manifold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mercies	mercy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
7	forsookest	forsake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
33	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	35	cc:preconj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	iobj	_	_
44	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
49	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
50	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	acl:relcl	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **forsake** | past | Thou | commandments *= commandment* |  | Thy manifold mercies |  | in the wilderness | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **depart** | past | the pillar of cloud |  |  |  | day | from commandments *= commandment* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from they=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lead** | to-infinitive | the pillar of cloud *not said here* | commandments *= commandment* |  | the way |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in way=Destination |
| 4 | **show** | to-infinitive | the pillar of cloud *not said here* | light | commandments *= commandment* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient light=Topic |
| 5 | **go** | should | commandments *= commandment* |  |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְאַתָּה֙ בְּרַחֲמֶ֣יךָ הָֽרַבִּ֔ים לֹ֥א עֲזַבְתָּ֖ם בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר אֶת־עַמּ֣וּד הֶ֠עָנָן לֹא־סָ֨ר מֵעֲלֵיהֶ֤ם בְּיוֹמָם֙ לְהַנְחֹתָ֣ם בְּהַדֶּ֔רֶךְ וְאֶת־עַמּ֨וּד הָאֵ֤שׁ בְּלַ֙יְלָה֙ לְהָאִ֣יר לָהֶ֔ם וְאֶת־הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֵֽלְכוּ־בָֽהּ׃

[Nehemiah 9:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.19/)

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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:260` 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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