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title: Nehemiah 11:2 (JPS 1917) — And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem. Who acts: people, men. Nehemiah 11:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 11:2 · JPS 1917

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And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** people, men · **What happens:** bless, offer, dwell · **To what, where:** men, people, Jerusalem

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This is Nehemiah 11:2 · 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 (people, men), 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:321
# text = And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | past | the people | all men |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | past | all men | people |  |  |  | willingly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | all men *not said here* |  |  | Jerusalem |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jerusalem=Location |

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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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וַֽיְבָרֲכ֖וּ הָעָ֑ם לְכֹל֙ הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים הַמִּֽתְנַדְּבִ֔ים לָשֶׁ֖בֶת בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃פ

[Nehemiah 11:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.2/)

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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:321` 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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