Nehemiah 12:27 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: priests · What happens: seek, bring, keep · To what, where: Levites, dedication, priests, Jerusalem

This is Nehemiah 12:27 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 — priests — and what happens in the verse to Levites, dedication, priests, Jerusalem, 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.

וּבַחֲנֻכַּ֞ת חוֹמַ֣ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם בִּקְשׁ֤וּ אֶת־הַלְוִיִּם֙ מִכָּל־מְק֣וֹמֹתָ֔ם לַהֲבִיאָ֖ם לִֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם לַעֲשֹׂ֨ת חֲנֻכָּ֤ה וְשִׂמְחָה֙ וּבְתוֹד֣וֹת וּבְשִׁ֔יר מְצִלְתַּ֖יִם נְבָלִ֥ים וּבְכִנֹּרֽוֹת׃

And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

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	_	6 בִּקְשׁ֤וּ	cc	and
2	בַ	בְּ	ADP	_	3 חֲנֻכַּ֞ת	case	at
3	חֲנֻכַּ֞ת	חֲנֻכָּה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	6 בִּקְשׁ֤וּ	obl	the dedication
4	חוֹמַ֣ת	חוֹמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	3 חֲנֻכַּ֞ת	compound:smixut	of the wall
5	יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם	יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם	PROPN	_	4 חוֹמַ֣ת	compound:smixut	of Jerusalem
6	בִּקְשׁ֤וּ	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	people sought
7	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	9 לְוִיִּם֙	case	(et)
8	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	9 לְוִיִּם֙	det	the
9	לְוִיִּם֙	לֵוִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	6 בִּקְשׁ֤וּ	obj	Levites
10	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	11 כָּל־	case	from
11	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	6 בִּקְשׁ֤וּ	obl	all
12	מְק֣וֹמֹת	מָקוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	11 כָּל־	compound:smixut	places
13	ָ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 מְק֣וֹמֹת	nmod:poss	their
14	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	15 הֲבִיא	case	to
15	הֲבִיא	בּוֹא	VERB	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	6 בִּקְשׁ֤וּ	advcl	bring
16	ָ֖ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 הֲבִיא	obj	them
17	לִֽ	לְ	ADP	_	18 ירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם	case	to
18	ירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם	יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם	PROPN	_	15 הֲבִיא	obl	Jerusalem
19	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	20 עֲשֹׂ֨ת	case	to
20	עֲשֹׂ֨ת	עָשָׂה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	15 הֲבִיא	advcl	observe
21	חֲנֻכָּ֤ה	חֲנֻכָּה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	20 עֲשֹׂ֨ת	obj	dedication
22	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	23 שִׂמְחָה֙	cc	and
23	שִׂמְחָה֙	שִׂמְחָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	21 חֲנֻכָּ֤ה	conj	joy
24	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	26 תוֹד֣וֹת	cc	and
25	בְ	בְּ	ADP	_	26 תוֹד֣וֹת	case	with
26	תוֹד֣וֹת	תּוֹדָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	20 עֲשֹׂ֨ת	obl	thanksgivings
27	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	29 שִׁ֔יר	cc	and
28	בְ	בְּ	ADP	_	29 שִׁ֔יר	case	with
29	שִׁ֔יר	שִׁיר	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 תוֹד֣וֹת	conj	song
30	מְצִלְתַּ֖יִם	מְצִלְתַּיִם	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Dual	29 שִׁ֔יר	conj	cymbals
31	נְבָלִ֥ים	נֵבֶל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	29 שִׁ֔יר	conj	lyres
32	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	34 כִנֹּרֽוֹת	cc	and
33	בְ	בְּ	ADP	_	34 כִנֹּרֽוֹת	case	with
34	כִנֹּרֽוֹת	כִּנּוֹר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	26 תוֹד֣וֹת	conj	harps
35	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	34 כִנֹּרֽוֹת	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
בִּקְשׁוּ people sought	qatal · piel		לְוִיִּם Levites
הֲבִיא bring	infinitive construct · hiphil		ָם them
עֲשֹׂת observe	infinitive construct · qal	לְוִיִּם Levites	חֲנֻכָּה dedication + שִׂמְחָה joy

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 at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

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:353.

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