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title: Nehemiah 13:27 (JPS 1917) — Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?' Who acts: we. Nehemiah 13:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 13:27 · JPS 1917

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Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?'

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** hearken, do, break, marry · **To what, where:** great evil, faith, foreign women

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This is Nehemiah 13:27 · 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 (we), 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:434
# text = Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?'
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
16	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	marrying	marry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1, act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | shall | we |  |  |  | then | unto you | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | all great evil |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality |
| 3 | **break** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | faith |  |  |  | with our God | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent faith=Patient with god=Instrument |
| 4 | **marry** | gerund | we *not said here* | foreign women |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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וְלָכֶ֣ם הֲנִשְׁמַ֗ע לַעֲשֹׂת֙ אֵ֣ת כָּל־הָרָעָ֤ה הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את לִמְעֹ֖ל בֵּֽאלֹהֵ֑ינוּ לְהֹשִׁ֖יב נָשִׁ֥ים נָכְרִיּֽוֹת׃

[Nehemiah 13:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.27/)

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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:434` 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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