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title: Nehemiah 13:24 (JPS 1917) — and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not… · tree and pragmatics
description: and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. Who acts: children. Nehemiah 13:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 13:24 · JPS 1917

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and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** speak, not speak, accord · **To what, where:** speech, language, Ashdod · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Nehemiah 13:24 · 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 (children), 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:431
# text = and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	half	half	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ashdod	Ashdod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Jews's children |  |  | the speech of Ashdod |  | half *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | could | Jews's children *not said here* |  |  | the Jews's language |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **speak** |  |  | Ashdod |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וּבְנֵיהֶ֗ם חֲצִי֙ מְדַבֵּ֣ר אַשְׁדּוֹדִ֔ית וְאֵינָ֥ם מַכִּירִ֖ים לְדַבֵּ֣ר יְהוּדִ֑ית וְכִלְשׁ֖וֹן עַ֥ם וָעָֽם׃

[Nehemiah 13:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.24/)

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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:431` 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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