--- title: Nehemiah 4:12 (JPS 1917) — And he that sounded the horn was by me. · tree and pragmatics description: And he that sounded the horn was by me. Who acts: Judah. Nehemiah 4:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.95/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Nehemiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/4/) / [4:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.4.12/) / JPS 2 # Nehemiah 4:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 And he that sounded the horn was by me. **Who acts:** Judah · **What happens:** sound, be · **To what, where:** horn This is Nehemiah 4:12 · 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 (Judah), 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:95 # text = And he that sounded the horn was by me. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **sound** | past | | the horn | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horn=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | Judah | | | | | by me | 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} 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/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.94/) 2. **And he that sounded the horn was by me.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:95` 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 4:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.94/) - next →: [Nehemiah 4:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.96/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 4:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.4.12/)