--- title: Nehemiah 11:12 (JPS 1917) — and their brethren that did the work of the house, eight hundred twe… · tree and pragmatics description: and their brethren that did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty and two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, Who acts: brethren, house. 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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 (brethren, house), 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:332 # text = and their brethren that did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty and two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 compound _ _ 13 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 compound _ _ 14 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 appos _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Adaiah Adaiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Jeroham Jeroham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Pelaliah Pelaliah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Amzi Amzi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Zechariah Zechariah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Pashhur Pashhur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Malchijah Malchijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Jedaiah's brethren and Adaiah | the work of the house | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 2 | **work** | | the house | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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} וַאֲחֵיהֶ֗ם עֹשֵׂ֤י הַמְּלָאכָה֙ לַבַּ֔יִת שְׁמֹנֶ֥ה מֵא֖וֹת עֶשְׂרִ֣ים וּשְׁנָ֑יִם וַ֠עֲדָיָה בֶּן־יְרֹחָ֤ם בֶּן־פְּלַלְיָה֙ בֶּן־אַמְצִ֣י בֶן־זְכַרְיָ֔ה בֶּן־פַּשְׁח֖וּר בֶּן־מַלְכִּיָּֽה׃ [Nehemiah 11:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:332` 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 11:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.331/) - next →: [Nehemiah 11:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.333/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 11:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.12/)