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title: Nehemiah 3:37 (JPS 1917) — and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out f… · tree and pragmatics
description: and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before Thee; for they have vexed Thee before the builders. Who acts: you, Jews. Nehemiah 3:37 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 3:37 · JPS 1917

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and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before Thee; for they have vexed Thee before the builders.

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**Who acts:** you, Jews · **What happens:** not cover, let, not blot out, vex · **To what, where:** iniquity, sin, Thee

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This is Nehemiah 3:37 · 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 (you, Jews), 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:81
# text = and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before Thee; for they have vexed Thee before the builders.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	blotted	blot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
23	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	obj	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **not** **cover** | imperative | you *not said here* | Jews's iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme iniquity=Destination |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **blot out** | infinitive · passive |  | Jews's sin |  | Thee |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **vex** | present · perfect | Jews *= jew* | Thee |  |  | before the builders |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer |

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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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וְאַל־תְּכַס֙ עַל־עֲוֺנָ֔ם וְחַטָּאתָ֖ם מִלְּפָנֶ֣יךָ אַל־תִּמָּחֶ֑ה כִּ֥י הִכְעִ֖יסוּ לְנֶ֥גֶד הַבּוֹנִֽים׃

[Nehemiah 3:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.37/)

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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:81` 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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