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title: Nehemiah 3:29 (JPS 1917) — And after him repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of… · tree and pragmatics
description: And after him repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate. Who acts: Shemaiah. Nehemiah 3:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 3:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And after him repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate.

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**Who acts:** Shemaiah · **What happens:** repair

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This is Nehemiah 3:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Shemaiah), 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:72
# text = And after him repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
4	repaired	repair	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Shemaiah	Shemaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Shecaniah	Shecaniah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **repair** | past | Shemaiah |  |  |  | after Zadok |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=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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אַחֲרָ֧יו הֶחֱזִ֛יק צָד֥וֹק בֶּן־אִמֵּ֖ר נֶ֣גֶד בֵּית֑וֹס וְאַחֲרָ֤יו הֶחֱזִיק֙ שְׁמַֽעְיָ֣ה בֶן־שְׁכַנְיָ֔ה שֹׁמֵ֖ר שַׁ֥עַר הַמִּזְרָֽח׃ס

[Nehemiah 3:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.29/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his own house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.71/)
2. **And after him repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate.**

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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:72` 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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