--- title: Nehemiah 3:25 (JPS 1917) — Palal the son of Uzai repaired over against the Turning, and the tow… · tree and pragmatics description: Palal the son of Uzai repaired over against the Turning, and the tower that standeth out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. Who acts: Palal, tower, upper house. 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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 (Palal, tower, upper house), 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:66 # text = Palal the son of Uzai repaired over against the Turning, and the tower that standeth out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. 1 Palal Palal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Uzai Uzai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 repaired repair VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 over over ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 10 case _ _ 8 against against ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Turning turning PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 standeth stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 acl:relcl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **repair** | past | Palal | | | the Turning and the tower | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand out** | present | the tower | | | the upper house of the king | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the upper house of the king | | | | | by the court; of the guard | tree rules | 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} פָּלָ֣ל בֶּן־אוּזַי֮ מִנֶּ֣גֶד הַמִּקְצוֹעַ֒ וְהַמִּגְדָּ֗ל הַיּוֹצֵא֙ מִבֵּ֤ית הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ הָֽעֶלְי֔וֹן אֲשֶׁ֖ר לַחֲצַ֣ר הַמַּטָּרָ֑ה אַחֲרָ֖יו פְּדָיָ֥ה בֶן־פַּרְעֹֽשׁ׃ס [Nehemiah 3:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.25/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Palal the son of Uzai repaired over against the Turning, and the tower that standeth out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard.** 2. [After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh repaired. —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.67/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:66` 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 3:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.65/) - next →: [Nehemiah 3:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.67/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 3:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.25/)