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title: Nehemiah 12:18 (JPS 1917) — of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; · tree and pragmatics
description: of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; Nehemiah 12:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 12:18 · JPS 1917

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of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

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This is Nehemiah 12:18 · 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:376
# text = of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
1	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Bilgah	Bilgah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Shammua	Shammua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Shemaiah	Shemaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Jehonathan	Jehonathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	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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לְבִלְגָּ֣ה שַׁמּ֔וּעַ לִֽשְׁמַעְיָ֖ה יְהוֹנָתָֽן׃

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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:376` 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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