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title: Nehemiah 3:13 (JPS 1917) — The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they… · tree and pragmatics
description: The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits of the wall unto the dung gate. Who acts: Hanun. Nehemiah 3:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Nehemiah 3:13 · JPS 1917

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The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits of the wall unto the dung gate.

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**Who acts:** Hanun · **What happens:** repair, build, set up · **To what, where:** valley gate, gate, doors

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This is Nehemiah 3:13 · 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 (Hanun), 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:52
# text = The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits of the wall unto the dung gate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
4	repaired	repair	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Hanun	Hanun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Zanoah	Zanoah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bolts	bolt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
31	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	dung	dung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repair** | past | Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah | the valley gate |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | past | Hanun | gate |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **set up** | past | Hanun *not said here* | the doors and the bolts and the bars and a thousand cubits of the wall unto the dung gate |  |  |  |  | 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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אֵת֩ שַׁ֨עַר הַגַּ֜יְא הֶחֱזִ֣יק חָנוּן֮ וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י זָנוֹחַ֒ הֵ֣מָּה בָנ֔וּהוּ וַֽיַּעֲמִ֙ידוּ֙ דַּלְתֹתָ֔יו מַנְעֻלָ֖יו וּבְרִיחָ֑יו וְאֶ֤לֶף אַמָּה֙ בַּחוֹמָ֔ה עַ֖ד שַׁ֥עַר הָשֲׁפֽוֹת׃

[Nehemiah 3:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.13/)

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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:52` of Mova's parse database.

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