--- title: Nehemiah 10:30 (JPS 1917) — they cleaved to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a cur… · tree and pragmatics description: they cleaved to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes; Who acts: knowledge, Moses, God. 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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 (knowledge, Moses, 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:309 # text = they cleaved to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes; 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cleaved cleave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 nobles noble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 curse curse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 oath oath NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl:agent _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 observe observe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 43 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 45 det:predet _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 commandments commandment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 appos _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 54 nmod:poss _ _ 54 ordinances ordinance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 56 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ _ 58 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cleave** | past | knowledge | | | | | to knowledge's brethren and knowledge's nobles *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to brethren=Result | | 2 | **enter** | past | knowledge *not said here* | | | a curse and a oath | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into curse=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | knowledge *not said here* | | | God's law | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in law=Trajectory | | 4 | **give** | past · passive | Moses | God's law | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 5 | **observe** | to-infinitive | knowledge *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **do** | infinitive | knowledge *not said here* | all commandments of the LORD and God's ordinances and God's statutes | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Eventuality | | 7 | **command** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **ordain** | | God | | | | | | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} מַחֲזִיקִ֣ים עַל־אֲחֵיהֶם֮ אַדִּירֵיהֶם֒ וּבָאִ֞ים בְּאָלָ֣ה וּבִשְׁבוּעָ֗ה לָלֶ֙כֶת֙ בְּתוֹרַ֣ת הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר נִתְּנָ֔ה בְּיַ֖ד מֹשֶׁ֣ה עֶֽבֶד־הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְלִשְׁמ֣וֹר וְלַעֲשׂ֗וֹת אֶת־כָּל־מִצְוֺת֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֲדֹנֵ֔ינוּ וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֖יו וְחֻקָּֽיו׃ [Nehemiah 10:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.30/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:309` 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. - ← previous: [Nehemiah 10:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.308/) - next →: [Nehemiah 10:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.310/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 10:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.30/)