Nehemiah 13:27 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: we · What happens: hearken, do, break, marry · To what, where: great evil, faith, foreign women

This is Nehemiah 13:27 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 — we — and what happens in the verse to great evil, faith, foreign women, 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.

וְלָכֶ֣ם הֲנִשְׁמַ֗ע לַעֲשֹׂת֙ אֵ֣ת כָּל־הָרָעָ֤ה הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את לִמְעֹ֖ל בֵּֽאלֹהֵ֑ינוּ לְהֹשִׁ֖יב נָשִׁ֥ים נָכְרִיּֽוֹת׃

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?'

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	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	5 נִשְׁמַ֗ע	cc	and
2	ל	לְ	ADP	_	3 ָכֶ֣ם	case	to
3	ָכֶ֣ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 נִשְׁמַ֗ע	obl	you
4	הֲ	הֲ	PART	_	5 נִשְׁמַ֗ע	advmod	will
5	נִשְׁמַ֗ע	שָׁמַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	we listen?
6	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	7 עֲשֹׂת֙	case	to
7	עֲשֹׂת֙	עָשָׂה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	5 נִשְׁמַ֗ע	advcl	do
8	אֵ֣ת	אֵת	ADP	_	9 כָּל־	case	(et)
9	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 עֲשֹׂת֙	obj	all
10	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 רָעָ֤ה	det	the
11	רָעָ֤ה	רָעָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	9 כָּל־	compound:smixut	evil
12	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	13 גְּדוֹלָה֙	det	(the)
13	גְּדוֹלָה֙	גָּדוֹל	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	11 רָעָ֤ה	amod	great
14	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	15 זֹּ֔את	det	(the)
15	זֹּ֔את	זֹאת	DET	Gender=Fem Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 רָעָ֤ה	det	this
16	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	17 מְעֹ֖ל	case	to
17	מְעֹ֖ל	מָעַל	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	7 עֲשֹׂת֙	advcl	act unfaithfully
18	בֵּֽ	בְּ	ADP	_	19 אלֹהֵ֑י	case	against
19	אלֹהֵ֑י	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	17 מְעֹ֖ל	obl	God
20	נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 אלֹהֵ֑י	nmod:poss	our
21	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	22 הֹשִׁ֖יב	case	by
22	הֹשִׁ֖יב	יָשַׁב	VERB	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	17 מְעֹ֖ל	advcl	marrying
23	נָשִׁ֥ים	אִשָּׁה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	22 הֹשִׁ֖יב	obj	wives
24	נָכְרִיּֽוֹת	נׇכְרִי	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	23 נָשִׁ֥ים	amod	foreign
25	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	24 נָכְרִיּֽוֹת	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
נִשְׁמַע we listen?	qatal · niphal
עֲשֹׂת do	infinitive construct · qal		רָעָה evil
מְעֹל act unfaithfully	infinitive construct · qal
הֹשִׁיב marrying	infinitive construct · hiphil	נָשִׁים wives

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.

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?'

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:400.

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