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title: Nehemiah 12:12 (JPS 1917) — And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' houses: o… · tree and pragmatics
description: And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; Nehemiah 12:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 12:12 · JPS 1917

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And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** priests

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This is Nehemiah 12:12 · 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:370
# text = And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Joiakim	Joiakim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	'	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Seraiah	Seraiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Meraiah	Meraiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Hananiah	Hananiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	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 | **is a** | past |  | priests |  |  | day |  | 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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וּבִימֵי֙ יֽוֹיָקִ֔ים הָי֥וּ כֹהֲנִ֖ים רָאשֵׁ֣י הָאָב֑וֹת לִשְׂרָיָ֣ה מְרָיָ֔ה לְיִרְמְיָ֖ה חֲנַנְיָֽה׃

[Nehemiah 12:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.12/)

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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:370` 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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