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title: Nehemiah 12:25 (JPS 1917) — Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were po… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the store-houses of the gates. Who acts: Mattaniah, porters. Nehemiah 12:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 12:25 · JPS 1917

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Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the store-houses of the gates.

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**Who acts:** Mattaniah, porters · **What happens:** be, keep · **To what, where:** porters, ward, store houses

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This is Nehemiah 12:25 · 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 (Mattaniah, porters), 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:383
# text = Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the store-houses of the gates.
1	Mattaniah	Mattaniah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Bakbukiah	Bakbukiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Obadiah	Obadiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Meshullam	Meshullam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Talmon	Talmon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Akkub	Akkub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	porters	porter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ward	ward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | Mattaniah and Bakbukiah and Obadiah and Meshullam and Talmon and Akkub | porters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | porters *not said here* | the ward |  | the store houses of the gates |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ward=Theme at house=Location |

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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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מַתַּנְיָ֧ה וּבַקְבֻּֽקְיָ֛ה עֹבַדְיָ֥ה מְשֻׁלָּ֖ם טַלְמ֣וֹן עַקּ֑וּב שֹׁמְרִ֤ים שֽׁוֹעֲרִים֙ מִשְׁמָ֔ר בַּאֲסֻפֵּ֖י הַשְּׁעָרִֽים׃

[Nehemiah 12:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.25/)

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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:383` 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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