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title: Nehemiah 13:30 (JPS 1917) — Thus cleansed I them from everything foreign, and appointed wards fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus cleansed I them from everything foreign, and appointed wards for the priests and for the Levites, every one in his work; Who acts: I, priest. Nehemiah 13:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 13:30 · JPS 1917

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Thus cleansed I them from everything foreign, and appointed wards for the priests and for the Levites, every one in his work;

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**Who acts:** I, priest · **What happens:** cleanse, appoint, work · **To what, where:** priesthood, everything, wards

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This is Nehemiah 13:30 · 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 (I, priest), 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:437
# text = Thus cleansed I them from everything foreign, and appointed wards for the priests and for the Levites, every one in his work;
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cleansed	cleanse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	wards	ward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	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 | **cleanse** | past | I | priesthood |  | everything |  | thus *property* | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **appoint** | past | I *not said here* | wards |  |  |  | for the priests and the Levites | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ward=Theme |
| 3 | **work** |  | priest |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְטִֽהַרְתִּ֖ים מִכָּל־נֵכָ֑ר וָאַעֲמִ֧ידָה מִשְׁמָר֛וֹת לַכֹּהֲנִ֥ים וְלַלְוִיִּ֖ם אִ֥ישׁ בִּמְלַאכְתּֽוֹ׃

[Nehemiah 13:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.30/)

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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:437` 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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