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title: Nehemiah 12:27 (JPS 1917) — And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levit… · tree and pragmatics
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# Nehemiah 12:27 · JPS 1917

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And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

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**Who acts:** priests · **What happens:** seek, bring, keep · **To what, where:** Levites, dedication, priests, Jerusalem

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This is Nehemiah 12:27 · 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 (priests), 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:385
# text = And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dedication	dedication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Levites	Levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dedication	dedication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc:preconj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	thanksgivings	thanksgiving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	singing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	cymbals	cymbal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	psalteries	psaltery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	harps	harp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **seek** | past | priests *= priest* | the Levites |  | the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem |  | out priests's places | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent levite=Theme at dedication=Location |
| 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive | priests *= priest* *not said here* | priests *= priest* | Jerusalem |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to jerusalem=Destination |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | priests *= priest* *not said here* | the dedication |  |  |  | with gladness; with thanksgivings and singing with cymbals and psalteries and harps | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dedication=Theme |

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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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וּבַחֲנֻכַּ֞ת חוֹמַ֣ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם בִּקְשׁ֤וּ אֶת־הַלְוִיִּם֙ מִכָּל־מְק֣וֹמֹתָ֔ם לַהֲבִיאָ֖ם לִֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם לַעֲשֹׂ֨ת חֲנֻכָּ֤ה וְשִׂמְחָה֙ וּבְתוֹד֣וֹת וּבְשִׁ֔יר מְצִלְתַּ֖יִם נְבָלִ֥ים וּבְכִנֹּרֽוֹת׃

[Nehemiah 12:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.27/)

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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:385` 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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