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title: Nehemiah 11:19 (JPS 1917) — Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred seventy and two. Who acts: porters. Nehemiah 11:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 11:19 · JPS 1917

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Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred seventy and two.

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**Who acts:** porters · **What happens:** keep, be · **To what, where:** watch, gates, hundred seventy

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This is Nehemiah 11:19 · 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 (porters), 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:339
# text = Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred seventy and two.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	porters	porter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Akkub	Akkub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Talmon	Talmon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
15	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **keep** | past | the porters | watch |  | the gates |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme at gate=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the porters | hundred seventy |  |  |  | moreover *property* | tree rules |

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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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וְהַשּֽׁוֹעֲרִים֙ עַקּ֣וּב טַלְמ֔וֹן וַאֲחֵיהֶ֖ם הַשֹּׁמְרִ֣ים בַּשְּׁעָרִ֑ים מֵאָ֖ה שִׁבְעִ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃

[Nehemiah 11:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.19/)

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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:339` 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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