Nehemiah 11:17 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: son · What happens: be, begin · To what, where: chief, thanksgiving, prayer

This is Nehemiah 11:17 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — son — and what happens in the verse to chief, thanksgiving, prayer, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 13 chapters of Nehemiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וּמַתַּנְיָ֣ה בֶן־מִ֠יכָה בֶּן־זַבְדִּ֨י בֶן־אָסָ֜ף רֹ֗אשׁ הַתְּחִלָּה֙ יְהוֹדֶ֣ה לַתְּפִלָּ֔ה וּבַקְבֻּקְיָ֖ה מִשְׁנֶ֣ה מֵאֶחָ֑יו וְעַבְדָּא֙ בֶּן־שַׁמּ֔וּעַ בֶּן־גָּלָ֖ל בֶּן־יְדוּתֽוּן׃

and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 רֹ֗אשׁ	cc	and
2	מַתַּנְיָ֣ה	מַתַּנְיָה	PROPN	_	9 רֹ֗אשׁ	nsubj	Mattaniah
3	בֶן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 מַתַּנְיָ֣ה	appos	the son
4	מִ֠יכָה	מִיכָה	PROPN	_	3 בֶן־	compound:smixut	of Micah
5	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 מִ֠יכָה	appos	the son
6	זַבְדִּ֨י	זַבְדִּי	PROPN	_	5 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Zabdi
7	בֶן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	6 זַבְדִּ֨י	appos	the son
8	אָסָ֜ף	אָסָף	PROPN	_	7 בֶן־	compound:smixut	of Asaph
9	רֹ֗אשׁ	רֹאשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	root	root	the leader
10	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 תְּחִלָּה֙	det	of
11	תְּחִלָּה֙	תְּחִלָּה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	9 רֹ֗אשׁ	compound:smixut	the beginning
12	יְהוֹדֶ֣ה	יָדָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	9 רֹ֗אשׁ	parataxis	he gave thanks
13	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	15 תְּפִלָּ֔ה	case	to
14	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	15 תְּפִלָּ֔ה	det	the
15	תְּפִלָּ֔ה	תְּפִלָּה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	12 יְהוֹדֶ֣ה	obl	prayer
16	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	18 מִשְׁנֶ֣ה	cc	and
17	בַקְבֻּקְיָ֖ה	בַּקְבֻּקְיָה	PROPN	_	18 מִשְׁנֶ֣ה	nsubj	Bakbukiah
18	מִשְׁנֶ֣ה	מִשְׁנֶה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 רֹ֗אשׁ	conj	[the] second
19	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	20 אֶחָ֑י	case	of
20	אֶחָ֑י	אָח	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	18 מִשְׁנֶ֣ה	obl	brothers
21	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 אֶחָ֑י	nmod:poss	his
22	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	23 עַבְדָּא֙	cc	and
23	עַבְדָּא֙	עַבְדָּא	PROPN	_	9 רֹ֗אשׁ	conj	Abda
24	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	23 עַבְדָּא֙	appos	the son
25	שַׁמּ֔וּעַ	שַׁמּוּעַ	PROPN	_	24 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Shammua
26	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	25 שַׁמּ֔וּעַ	appos	the son
27	גָּלָ֖ל	גָּלָל	PROPN	_	26 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Galal
28	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	27 גָּלָ֖ל	appos	the son
29	יְדוּתֽוּן	יְדוּתוּן	PROPN	_	28 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	Jeduthun
30	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	29 יְדוּתֽוּן	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
יְהוֹדֶה he gave thanks	yiqtol · hiphil	מַתַּנְיָה Mattaniah

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:NEH:307.

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