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title: Nehemiah 12:9 (JPS 1917) — Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in w… · tree and pragmatics
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# Nehemiah 12:9 · JPS 1917

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Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in wards.

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This is Nehemiah 12:9 · 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: 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:367
# text = Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in wards.
1	Also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	Bakbukiah	Bakbukiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Unni	Unni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wards	ward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וּבַקְבֻּֽקְיָ֨ה וְעֻנִּ֧י אֲחֵיהֶ֛ם לְנֶגְדָּ֖ם לְמִשְׁמָרֽוֹת׃

[Nehemiah 12:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.9/)

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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:367` 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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