--- title: Nehemiah 13:11 (JPS 1917) — Then contended I with the rulers, and said: 'Why is the house of God… · tree and pragmatics description: Then contended I with the rulers, and said: 'Why is the house of God forsaken?' And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. Who acts: I. 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And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** contend, say, forsake, gather, set · **To what, where:** house, chambers, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Nehemiah 13:11 · 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 (I), 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:417 # text = Then contended I with the rulers, and said: 'Why is the house of God forsaken?' And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 contended contend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 12 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 forsaken forsake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 ccomp _ _ 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 21 And and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 together together ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contend** | past | I | | | | then | with the rulers | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ruler=Co-Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **forsake** | present · passive | | the house of God | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **gather** | past | I | chambers *= chamber* | | | | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **set** | past | I *not said here* | chambers *= chamber* | | chambers's place | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in place=Destination | 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} וָאָרִ֙יבָה֙ אֶת־הַסְּגָנִ֔ים וָאֹ֣מְרָ֔ה מַדּ֖וּעַ נֶעֱזַ֣ב בֵּית־הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וָֽאֶ֨קְבְּצֵ֔םוָֽאַעֲמִדֵ֖ם עַל־עָמְדָֽם׃ [Nehemiah 13:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:417` 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. - ← previous: [Nehemiah 13:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.416/) - next →: [Nehemiah 13:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.418/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 13:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.11/)