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title: Nehemiah 11:23 (JPS 1917) — For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a sur… · tree and pragmatics
description: For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a sure ordinance concerning the singers, as every day required. Who acts: commandment, day. Nehemiah 11:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 11:23 · JPS 1917

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For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a sure ordinance concerning the singers, as every day required.

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**Who acts:** commandment, day · **What happens:** be, require

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This is Nehemiah 11:23 · 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 (commandment, day), 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:343
# text = For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a sure ordinance concerning the singers, as every day required.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	_	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	concerning	concern	ADP	VBG	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ordinance	ordinance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	concerning	concern	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **be** | past | a commandment from the king concern singers and a sure ordinance concern the singers |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **require** | participle | every day |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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כִּֽי־מִצְוַ֥ת הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וַאֲמָנָ֥ה עַל־הַמְשֹׁרְרִ֖ים דְּבַר־י֥וֹם בְּיוֹמֽוֹ׃

[Nehemiah 11:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.23/)

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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:343` 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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