Nehemiah 2:2 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: king, countenance, thou, I, heart · What happens: say, be, see, not be, sorrow · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Nehemiah 2:2 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 — king, countenance, thou, I, heart — and what happens in the verse to nothing, 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.

וַיֹּאמֶר֩ לִ֨י הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ מַדּ֣וּעַ ׀ פָּנֶ֣יךָ רָעִ֗ים וְאַתָּה֙ אֵֽינְךָ֣ חוֹלֶ֔ה אֵ֣ין זֶ֔ה כִּי־אִ֖ם רֹ֣עַֽ לֵ֑ב וָאִירָ֖א הַרְבֵּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃

And the king said unto me: 'Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart.' Then I was very sore afraid.

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	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יֹּאמֶר֩	cc	and
2	יֹּאמֶר֩	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he said
3	ל	לְ	ADP	_	4 ִ֨י	case	to
4	ִ֨י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 יֹּאמֶר֩	obl	me
5	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	6 מֶּ֜לֶךְ	det	the
6	מֶּ֜לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יֹּאמֶר֩	nsubj	king
7	מַדּ֣וּעַ	מַדּוּעַ	ADV	_	11 רָעִ֗ים	advmod	why?
8	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	7 מַדּ֣וּעַ	punct
9	פָּנֶ֣י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 רָעִ֗ים	nsubj	face
10	ךָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 פָּנֶ֣י	nmod:poss	[is] your
11	רָעִ֗ים	רַע	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 יֹּאמֶר֩	ccomp	sad
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	16 חוֹלֶ֔ה	cc	and
13	אַתָּה֙	אַתָּה	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 חוֹלֶ֔ה	dislocated	you
14	אֵֽינ	אַיִן	ADV	_	16 חוֹלֶ֔ה	advmod	not
15	ְךָ֣	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 חוֹלֶ֔ה	nsubj	you
16	חוֹלֶ֔ה	חָלָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	11 רָעִ֗ים	conj	[are] sick
17	אֵ֣ין	אַיִן	ADV	_	11 רָעִ֗ים	parataxis	[is] not
18	זֶ֔ה	זֶה	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 אֵ֣ין	nsubj	this
19	כִּי־	כִּי	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 רֹ֣עַֽ	mark	(dm)
20	אִ֖ם	אִם	SCONJ	_	19 כִּי־	fixed	(if)
21	רֹ֣עַֽ	רֹעַ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	17 אֵ֣ין	parataxis	sadness
22	לֵ֑ב	לֵב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 רֹ֣עַֽ	compound:smixut	of heart
23	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	24 אִירָ֖א	cc	and
24	אִירָ֖א	יָרֵא	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	2 יֹּאמֶר֩	conj	I was afraid
25	הַרְבֵּ֥ה	רָבָה	ADV	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	24 אִירָ֖א	advmod	greatly
26	מְאֹֽד	מְאֹד	ADV	_	25 הַרְבֵּ֥ה	advmod	very
27	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	26 מְאֹֽד	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: yes
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal	מֶּלֶךְ king
not חוֹלֶה [are] sick	participle active · qal	ְךָ you
אִירָא I was afraid	wayyiqtol · qal

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 the king said unto me: 'Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart.' Then I was very sore afraid.

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:12.

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