Nehemiah 2:8 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: king, castle, I · What happens: give, make, appertain, enter, grant, accord · To what, where: timber, me, beams, house

This is Nehemiah 2:8 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, castle, I — and what happens in the verse to timber, me, beams, house, 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.

וְאִגֶּ֡רֶת אֶל־אָסָף֩ שֹׁמֵ֨ר הַפַּרְדֵּ֜ס אֲשֶׁ֣ר לַמֶּ֗לֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִתֶּן־לִ֣י עֵצִ֡ים לְ֠קָרוֹת אֶת־שַׁעֲרֵ֨י הַבִּירָ֤ה אֲשֶׁר־לַבַּ֙יִת֙ וּלְחוֹמַ֣ת הָעִ֔יר וְלַבַּ֖יִת אֲשֶׁר־אָב֣וֹא אֵלָ֑יו וַיִּתֶּן־לִ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כְּיַד־אֱלֹהַ֖י הַטּוֹבָ֥ה עָלָֽי׃

and a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's park, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into.' And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

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	_	2 אִגֶּ֡רֶת	cc	and
2	אִגֶּ֡רֶת	אִגֶּרֶת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	root	root	a letter
3	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	4 אָסָף֩	case	to
4	אָסָף֩	אָסָף	PROPN	_	2 אִגֶּ֡רֶת	obl	Asaph
5	שֹׁמֵ֨ר	שָׁמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	4 אָסָף֩	appos	[the one who] kept
6	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	7 פַּרְדֵּ֜ס	det	the
7	פַּרְדֵּ֜ס	פַּרְדֵּס	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	5 שֹׁמֵ֨ר	obj	forest
8	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	11 מֶּ֗לֶךְ	mark	which
9	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	11 מֶּ֗לֶךְ	case	[belongs] to
10	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 מֶּ֗לֶךְ	det	the
11	מֶּ֗לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 פַּרְדֵּ֜ס	acl:relcl	king
12	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	13 יִתֶּן־	mark	that
13	יִתֶּן־	נָתַן	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 אִגֶּ֡רֶת	parataxis	he will give
14	ל	לְ	ADP	_	15 ִ֣י	case	to
15	ִ֣י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 יִתֶּן־	obl	me
16	עֵצִ֡ים	עֵץ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	13 יִתֶּן־	obj	wood(s)
17	לְ֠	לְ	ADP	_	18 קָרוֹת	case	to
18	קָרוֹת	קָרָה	VERB	HebBinyan=PIEL	13 יִתֶּן־	xcomp	make beams for
19	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	20 שַׁעֲרֵ֨י	case	(et)
20	שַׁעֲרֵ֨י	שַׁעַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	18 קָרוֹת	obj	the gates
21	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	22 בִּירָ֤ה	det	of
22	בִּירָ֤ה	בִּירָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	20 שַׁעֲרֵ֨י	compound:smixut	the citadel
23	אֲשֶׁר־	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	26 בַּ֙יִת֙	mark	which
24	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	26 בַּ֙יִת֙	case	[belongs] to
25	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	26 בַּ֙יִת֙	det	the
26	בַּ֙יִת֙	בַּיִת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	22 בִּירָ֤ה	acl:relcl	house
27	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	29 חוֹמַ֣ת	cc	and
28	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	29 חוֹמַ֣ת	case	for
29	חוֹמַ֣ת	חוֹמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	18 קָרוֹת	conj	the wall
30	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	31 עִ֔יר	det	of
31	עִ֔יר	עִיר	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	29 חוֹמַ֣ת	compound:smixut	the city
32	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	35 בַּ֖יִת	cc	and
33	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	35 בַּ֖יִת	case	for
34	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	35 בַּ֖יִת	det	the
35	בַּ֖יִת	בַּיִת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	18 קָרוֹת	conj	house
36	אֲשֶׁר־	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	37 אָב֣וֹא	mark	which
37	אָב֣וֹא	בּוֹא	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	35 בַּ֖יִת	acl:relcl	I will go
38	אֵלָ֑י	אֶל	ADP	_	39 ו	case	into
39	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 אָב֣וֹא	obl	it
40	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	41 יִּתֶּן־	cc	and
41	יִּתֶּן־	נָתַן	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 אִגֶּ֡רֶת	conj	he gave [them]
42	ל	לְ	ADP	_	43 ִ֣י	case	to
43	ִ֣י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 יִּתֶּן־	obl	me
44	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	45 מֶּ֔לֶךְ	det	the
45	מֶּ֔לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	41 יִּתֶּן־	nsubj	king
46	כְּ	כְּ	ADP	_	53 ָֽי	case	according
47	יַד־	יָד	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 ָֽי	nsubj	to the hand
48	אֱלֹה	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	47 יַד־	compound:smixut	my God
49	ַ֖י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 אֱלֹה	nmod:poss	my
50	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	51 טּוֹבָ֥ה	det	(the)
51	טּוֹבָ֥ה	טוֹב	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	47 יַד־	amod	good
52	עָל	עַל	ADP	_	53 ָֽי	case	on
53	ָֽי	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 יִּתֶּן־	obl	me
54	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	53 ָֽי	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
שֹׁמֵר [the one who] kept	participle active · qal	אָסָף Asaph	פַּרְדֵּס forest
יִתֶּן־ he will give	yiqtol · qal	אָסָף Asaph	עֵצִים wood(s)
קָרוֹת make beams for	infinitive construct · piel		שַׁעֲרֵי the gates
אָבוֹא I will go	yiqtol · qal
יִּתֶּן־ he gave [them]	wayyiqtol · qal	מֶּלֶךְ king

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 a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's park, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into.' And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

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:18.

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