Nehemiah 13:24 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: children · What happens: speak, not speak, accord · To what, where: speech, language, Ashdod · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Nehemiah 13:24 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 — children — and what happens in the verse to speech, language, Ashdod, 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.

וּבְנֵיהֶ֗ם חֲצִי֙ מְדַבֵּ֣ר אַשְׁדּוֹדִ֔ית וְאֵינָ֥ם מַכִּירִ֖ים לְדַבֵּ֣ר יְהוּדִ֑ית וְכִלְשׁ֖וֹן עַ֥ם וָעָֽם׃

and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

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	_	5 מְדַבֵּ֣ר	cc	and
2	בְנֵי	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	5 מְדַבֵּ֣ר	nsubj	children
3	הֶ֗ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 בְנֵי	nmod:poss	their
4	חֲצִי֙	חֲצִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 בְנֵי	appos	half
5	מְדַבֵּ֣ר	דָבַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing	root	root	[was] speaking
6	אַשְׁדּוֹדִ֔ית	אַשְׁדֹּודִי	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	5 מְדַבֵּ֣ר	obj	Ashdodite
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	10 מַכִּירִ֖ים	cc	and
8	אֵינ	אַיִן	ADV	_	10 מַכִּירִ֖ים	advmod	not
9	ָ֥ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 מַכִּירִ֖ים	nsubj	they
10	מַכִּירִ֖ים	נָכַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur	5 מְדַבֵּ֣ר	conj	[were] knowing
11	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	12 דַבֵּ֣ר	case	to
12	דַבֵּ֣ר	דָבַר	VERB	HebBinyan=PIEL	10 מַכִּירִ֖ים	advcl	speak
13	יְהוּדִ֑ית	יְהוּדִי	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	12 דַבֵּ֣ר	obj	Judean
14	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	16 לְשׁ֖וֹן	cc	and
15	כִ	כְּ	ADP	_	16 לְשׁ֖וֹן	case	according
16	לְשׁ֖וֹן	לָשׁוֹן	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 מְדַבֵּ֣ר	conj	to [the] language
17	עַ֥ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 לְשׁ֖וֹן	compound:smixut	of people
18	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	19 עָֽם	cc	and
19	עָֽם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	17 עַ֥ם	conj	people
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	19 עָֽם	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
מְדַבֵּר [was] speaking	participle active · piel	בְנֵי children	אַשְׁדּוֹדִית Ashdodite
not מַכִּירִים [were] knowing	participle active · hiphil	ָם they
דַבֵּר speak	infinitive construct · piel	בְנֵי children	יְהוּדִית Judean

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 their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

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:397.

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