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title: Nehemiah 3:6 (JPS 1917) — And the gate of the old city repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and M… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the gate of the old city repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof. Who acts: Joiada. Nehemiah 3:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Nehemiah 3:6 · JPS 1917

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And the gate of the old city repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.

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**Who acts:** Joiada · **What happens:** repair, lay, set up · **To what, where:** gate, beams, doors

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This is Nehemiah 3:6 · 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 (Joiada), 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:43
# text = And the gate of the old city repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	repaired	repair	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Joiada	Joiada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Paseah	Paseah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Meshullam	Meshullam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Besodeiah	Besodeiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bolts	bolt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
37	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
42	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | Joiada and Meshullam | the gate of the old city |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | past | Joiada | the beams |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beam=Result |
| 3 | **set up** | past | Joiada *not said here* | the doors and the bolts and the bars |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient door=Result |

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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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וְאֵת֩ שַׁ֨עַר הַיְשָׁנָ֜ה שַׁ֨עַר הַיְשָׁנָ֜ה הֶחֱזִ֗יקוּ יֽוֹיָדָע֙ בֶּן־פָּסֵ֔חַ וּמְשֻׁלָּ֖ם בֶּן־בְּסֽוֹדְיָ֑ה הֵ֣מָּה קֵר֔וּהוּ וַֽיַּעֲמִ֙ידוּ֙ דַּלְתֹתָ֔יו וּמַנְעֻלָ֖יו וּבְרִיחָֽיו׃ס

[Nehemiah 3:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.6/)

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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:43` of Mova's parse database.

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