Nehemiah 2:4 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: king, thou, I · What happens: say, make, pray · To what, where: request · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Nehemiah 2:4 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, thou, I — and what happens in the verse to request, 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.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לִי֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ עַל־מַה־זֶּ֖ה אַתָּ֣ה מְבַקֵּ֑שׁ וָֽאֶתְפַּלֵּ֔ל אֶל־אֱלֹהֵ֖י הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

Then the king said unto me: 'For what dost thou make request?' So I prayed to the God of heaven.

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 יֹּ֤אמֶר	cc	and
2	יֹּ֤אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he said
3	ל	לְ	ADP	_	4 ִי֙	case	to
4	ִי֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	obl	me
5	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	6 מֶּ֔לֶךְ	det	the
6	מֶּ֔לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	nsubj	king
7	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	8 מַה־	case	on
8	מַה־	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	ccomp	what?
9	זֶּ֖ה	זֶה	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 מַה־	nsubj	this
10	אַתָּ֣ה	אַתָּה	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 מְבַקֵּ֑שׁ	nsubj	[are] you
11	מְבַקֵּ֑שׁ	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing	9 זֶּ֖ה	acl	requesting
12	וָֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	13 אֶתְפַּלֵּ֔ל	cc	and
13	אֶתְפַּלֵּ֔ל	פָּלַל	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HITHPAEL Number=Sing Person=1	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	conj	I prayed
14	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	15 אֱלֹהֵ֖י	case	to
15	אֱלֹהֵ֖י	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	13 אֶתְפַּלֵּ֔ל	obl	the God
16	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	17 שָּׁמָֽיִם	det	of
17	שָּׁמָֽיִם	שָׁמַיִם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	15 אֱלֹהֵ֖י	compound:smixut	the heavens
18	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	17 שָּׁמָֽיִם	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal	מֶּלֶךְ king
מְבַקֵּשׁ requesting	participle active · piel	אַתָּה [are] you	זֶּה this
אֶתְפַּלֵּל I prayed	wayyiqtol · hithpael

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.

Then the king said unto me: 'For what dost thou make request?' So I prayed to the God of heaven.

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:14.

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