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title: Nehemiah 11:16 (JPS 1917) — and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had th… · tree and pragmatics
description: and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God; Who acts: Jozabad. Nehemiah 11:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 11:16 · JPS 1917

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and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;

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**Who acts:** Jozabad · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** oversight

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This is Nehemiah 11:16 · 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 (Jozabad), 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:336
# text = and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Shabbethai	Shabbethai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Jozabad	Jozabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Levites	Levites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	oversight	oversight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	outward	outward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Jozabad of the chiefs of the Levites | the oversight of the outward business of the house of God |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oversight=Patient |

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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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וְשַׁבְּתַ֨י וְיוֹזָבָ֜ד עַל־הַמְּלָאכָ֤ה הַחִֽיצֹנָה֙ לְבֵ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים מֵרָאשֵׁ֖י הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

[Nehemiah 11:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.16/)

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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:336` 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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