---
title: Nehemiah 11:4 (JPS 1917) — And in Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And in Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Who acts: certain. Nehemiah 11:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.323/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Nehemiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/) / [chapter 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/11/) / [11:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.4/) / JPS 1

# Nehemiah 11:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And in Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** certain · **What happens:** dwell · **To what, where:** Jerusalem

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Nehemiah 11:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (certain), 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:323
# text = And in Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	certain	certain	PRON	NN	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past | certain |  |  | Jerusalem |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jerusalem=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וּבִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ יָֽשְׁב֔וּ מִבְּנֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה וּמִבְּנֵ֣י בִנְיָמִ֑ן מִבְּנֵ֣י יְ֠הוּדָה עֲתָיָ֨ה בֶן־עֻזִּיָּ֜ה בֶּן־זְכַרְיָ֧ה בֶן־אֲמַרְיָ֛ה בֶּן־שְׁפַטְיָ֥ה בֶן־מַהֲלַלְאֵ֖ל מִבְּנֵי־פָֽרֶץ׃

[Nehemiah 11:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.4/)

<!-- .note -->
This verse in JPS 1917:

<!-- .ens -->
1. **And in Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin.**
2. [Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.324/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:323` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Nehemiah 11:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.322/)
- next →: [Nehemiah 11:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.324/)
- ↑ back to [Nehemiah 11:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.4/)