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title: Nehemiah 9:35 (JPS 1917) — For they have not served Thee in their kingdom, and in Thy great goo… · tree and pragmatics
description: For they have not served Thee in their kingdom, and in Thy great goodness that Thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which Thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. Who acts: commandments, Thou. Nehemiah 9:35 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Nehemiah 9:35 · JPS 1917

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For they have not served Thee in their kingdom, and in Thy great goodness that Thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which Thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

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**Who acts:** commandments, Thou · **What happens:** not serve, give, turn, work · **To what, where:** Thee, kingdom, great goodness, large fat land

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This is Nehemiah 9:35 · 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:276
# text = For they have not served Thee in their kingdom, and in Thy great goodness that Thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which Thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gavest	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
29	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
30	gavest	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	35	cc	_	_
35	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **serve** | present · perfect | commandments *= commandment* | Thee |  | commandments's kingdom |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thou=Value in kingdom=Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | Thou | Thy great goodness |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient they=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | Thou | the large fat land |  |  | before commandments *= commandment* |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | past | commandments *= commandment* |  |  | Thy great goodness |  | in the large fat land; from commandments's wicked works | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in goodness=Source in land=Trajectory from work=Destination |
| 5 | **work** |  | commandments *= commandment* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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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וְהֵ֣ם בְּמַלְכוּתָם֩ וּבְטוּבְךָ֨ הָרָ֜ב אֲשֶׁר־נָתַ֣תָּ לָהֶ֗ם וּבְאֶ֨רֶץ הָרְחָבָ֧ה וְהַשְּׁמֵנָ֛ה אֲשֶׁר־נָתַ֥תָּ לִפְנֵיהֶ֖ם לֹ֣א עֲבָד֑וּךָ וְֽלֹא־שָׁ֔בוּ מִמַּֽעַלְלֵיהֶ֖ם הָרָעִֽים׃

[Nehemiah 9:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.35/)

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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:276` of Mova's parse database.

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