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title: Nehemiah 13:18 (JPS 1917) — Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil u… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.' Who acts: God, ye. Nehemiah 13:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 13:18 · JPS 1917

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Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.'

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**Who acts:** God, ye · **What happens:** not bring, bring, profane · **To what, where:** evil, more wrath, sabbath

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This is Nehemiah 13:18 · 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 (God, ye), 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:424
# text = Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.'
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
24	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nsubj	_	_
26	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	profaning	profane	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sabbath	sabbath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=assert, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bring** | past · do-support | our God | all evil |  |  |  | upon us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | present | ye | more wrath |  |  |  | upon Israel | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme |
| 3 | **profane** | gerund | ye *not said here* | the sabbath |  |  |  |  | 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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הֲל֨וֹא כֹ֤ה עָשׂוּ֙ אֲבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וַיָּבֵ֨א אֱלֹהֵ֜ינוּ עָלֵ֗ינוּ אֵ֚ת כָּל־הָרָעָ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את וְעַ֖ל הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֑את וְאַתֶּ֞ם מוֹסִיפִ֤ים חָרוֹן֙ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְחַלֵּ֖ל אֶת־הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃פ

[Nehemiah 13:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.18/)

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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:424` 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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