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title: Nehemiah 3:5 (JPS 1917) — And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; and their nobles put not t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; and their nobles put not their necks to the work of their lord. Who acts: Tekoites, nobles, lord. Nehemiah 3:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 3:5 · JPS 1917

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And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; and their nobles put not their necks to the work of their lord.

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**Who acts:** Tekoites, nobles, lord · **What happens:** repair, not put, work · **To what, where:** necks

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This is Nehemiah 3:5 · 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 (Tekoites, nobles, lord), 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:42
# text = And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; and their nobles put not their necks to the work of their lord.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	next	next	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Tekoites	tekoite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	repaired	repair	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **repair** | past | the Tekoites |  |  |  |  | unto men *= man*; next *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **put** | past | men's nobles | men's necks |  |  |  | to the work of men's lord | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent neck=Goal |
| 3 | **work** |  | men's lord |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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וְעַל־יָדָ֖ם הֶחֱזִ֣יקוּ הַתְּקוֹעִ֑ים וְאַדִּֽירֵיהֶם֙ לֹא־הֵבִ֣יאוּ צַוָּרָ֔ם בַּעֲבֹדַ֖ת אֲדֹנֵיהֶֽם׃ס

[Nehemiah 3:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.5/)

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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:42` 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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