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title: Nehemiah 12:23 (JPS 1917) — The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' houses, were written in the book… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' houses, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib. Nehemiah 12:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 12:23 · JPS 1917

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The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' houses, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

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**What happens:** write · **To what, where:** sons, book

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This is Nehemiah 12:23 · 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: 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:381
# text = The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' houses, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	until	until	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Johanan	Johanan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Eliashib	Eliashib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **write** | past · passive |  | the sons of Levi |  | the book of the chronicles | day |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination |

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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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בְּנֵ֤י לֵוִי֙ רָאשֵׁ֣י הָֽאָב֔וֹת כְּתוּבִ֕ים עַל־סֵ֖פֶר דִּבְרֵ֣י הַיָּמִ֑ים וְעַד־יְמֵ֖י יֽוֹחָנָ֥ן בֶּן־אֶלְיָשִֽׁיב׃

[Nehemiah 12:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.23/)

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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:381` 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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