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title: Nehemiah 10:1 (JPS 1917) — And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and subscribe it; and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and subscribe it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, set their seal unto it. Who acts: we, princes. Nehemiah 10:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 10:1 · JPS 1917

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And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and subscribe it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, set their seal unto it.

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**Who acts:** we, princes · **What happens:** make, subscribe, set · **To what, where:** sure covenant, covenant, seal

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This is Nehemiah 10:1 · 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 (we, princes), 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:279
# text = And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and subscribe it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, set their seal unto it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	subscribe	subscribe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
27	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- 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** | present | we | a sure covenant |  |  | yet | for this | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent covenant=Product for this=Asset |
| 2 | **subscribe** | present | we *not said here* | covenant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | past | our princes and our Levites and our priests | princes's seal |  |  |  | unto seal | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient seal=Result |

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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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וּבְכָל־זֹ֕את אֲנַ֛חְנוּ כֹּרְתִ֥ים אֲמָנָ֖ה וְכֹתְבִ֑ים וְעַל֙ הֶֽחָת֔וּם שָׂרֵ֥ינוּ לְוִיֵּ֖נוּ כֹּהֲנֵֽינוּ׃

[Nehemiah 10:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.1/)

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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:279` 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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