--- title: Nehemiah 13:25 (JPS 1917) — And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of the… · tree and pragmatics description: And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God: 'Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. Who acts: I, Jews, Ye. 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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, Jews, 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:432 # text = And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God: 'Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 contended contend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 cursed curse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 smote smote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 certain certain PRON NN Number=Plur|PronType=Ind 12 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 plucked pluck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 off off ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 swear swear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 31 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 35 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 unto unto ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 42 cc _ _ 42 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 or or CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 for for ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 yourselves yourselves PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 47 conj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contend** | past | I | | | | | with Jews *= jew* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | | 2 | **curse** | past | I *not said here* | Jews *= jew* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **smote** | past | I *not said here* | certain | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pluck off** | past | I *not said here* | Jews's hair | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 5 | **make** | past | I *not said here* | Jews *= jew* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **swear** | infinitive | Jews *= jew* *not said here* | | | | | by God | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **not** **give** | shall | Ye | your daughters | | | | unto Jews's sons | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | | 8 | **take** | infinitive | Ye *not said here* | Jews's daughters | | | | for your sons | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme for son=Beneficiary | 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} וָאָרִ֤יב עִמָּם֙ וָאֲקַֽלְלֵ֔ם וָאַכֶּ֥ה מֵהֶ֛ם אֲנָשִׁ֖ים וָֽאֶמְרְטֵ֑ם וָאַשְׁבִּיעֵ֣ם בֵּֽאלֹהִ֗ים אִם־תִּתְּנ֤וּ בְנֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ לִבְנֵיהֶ֔ם וְאִם־תִּשְׂאוּ֙ מִבְּנֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם לִבְנֵיכֶ֖ם וְלָכֶֽם׃ [Nehemiah 13:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:432` 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 13:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.431/) - next →: [Nehemiah 13:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.433/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 13:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.25/)