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title: Nehemiah 4:12 (JPS 1917) — and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so… · tree and pragmatics
description: and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. Who acts: builders. Nehemiah 4:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 4:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded.

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**Who acts:** builders · **What happens:** have, gird, build · **To what, where:** sword

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This is Nehemiah 4:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (builders), 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:94
# text = and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	girded	gird	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	builded	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **have** | past | the builders | Judah's sword |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
| 2 | **gird** | participle |  | Judah's sword *not said here* |  |  |  | by Judah's side | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | past | the builders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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וְהַ֨בּוֹנִ֔ים אִ֥ישׁ חַרְבּ֛וֹ אֲסוּרִ֥ים עַל־מָתְנָ֖יו וּבוֹנִ֑ים וְהַתּוֹקֵ֥עַ בַּשּׁוֹפָ֖ר אֶצְלִֽי׃

[Nehemiah 4:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.4.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded.**
2. [And he that sounded the horn was by me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.95/)

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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:94` 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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