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title: Nehemiah 12:36 (JPS 1917) — and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Neth… · tree and pragmatics
description: and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them; Who acts: Ezra. Nehemiah 12:36 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 12:36 · JPS 1917

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and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them;

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**Who acts:** Ezra · **What happens:** be

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This is Nehemiah 12:36 · 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 (Ezra), 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:394
# text = and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them;
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Shemaiah	Shemaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Azarel	Azarel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Milalai	Milalai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Gilalai	Gilalai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Maai	Maai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Nethanel	Nethanel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Hanani	Hanani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
35	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	scribe	scribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	before	before	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	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** | past | Ezra |  |  |  | before Shemaiah |  | 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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וְֽאֶחָ֡יו שְֽׁמַעְיָ֡ה וַעֲזַרְאֵ֡ל מִֽלֲלַ֡י גִּֽלֲלַ֡י מָעַ֞י נְתַנְאֵ֤ל וִֽיהוּדָה֙ חֲנָ֔נִי בִּכְלֵי־שִׁ֥יר דָּוִ֖יד אִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְעֶזְרָ֥א הַסּוֹפֵ֖ר לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃

[Nehemiah 12:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.36/)

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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:394` 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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