Nehemiah 3:38 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: we, people · What happens: build, join, have, work · To what, where: wall, mind

This is Nehemiah 3:38 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, people — and what happens in the verse to wall, mind, 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.

וַנִּבְנֶה֙ אֶת־הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה וַתִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר כָּל־הַחוֹמָ֖ה עַד־חֶצְיָ֑הּ וַיְהִ֧י לֵ֦ב לָעָ֖ם לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃פ

So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof; for the people had a mind to work.

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 נִּבְנֶה֙	cc	and
2	נִּבְנֶה֙	בָּנָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	root	root	we rebuilt
3	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	5 חוֹמָ֔ה	case	(et)
4	הַ֣	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	5 חוֹמָ֔ה	det	the
5	חוֹמָ֔ה	חוֹמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	2 נִּבְנֶה֙	obj	wall
6	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	7 תִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר	cc	and
7	תִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר	קָשַׁר	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 נִּבְנֶה֙	conj	it was joined together
8	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 תִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר	nsubj	all
9	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	10 חוֹמָ֖ה	det	the
10	חוֹמָ֖ה	חוֹמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	8 כָּל־	compound:smixut	wall
11	עַד־	עַד	ADP	_	12 חֶצְי	case	to
12	חֶצְי	חֲצִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 תִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר	obl	middle
13	ָ֑הּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 חֶצְי	nmod:poss	its
14	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 יְהִ֧י	cc	and
15	יְהִ֧י	הָיָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 נִּבְנֶה֙	conj	it belonged
16	לֵ֦ב	לֵב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 יְהִ֧י	nsubj	a heart
17	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	19 עָ֖ם	case	to
18	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	19 עָ֖ם	det	the
19	עָ֖ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 לֵ֦ב	nmod	people
20	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	21 עֲשֽׂוֹת	case	to
21	עֲשֽׂוֹת	עָשָׂה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	15 יְהִ֧י	advcl	work
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	21 עֲשֽׂוֹת	punct
23	פ	פ	PUNCT	_	21 עֲשֽׂוֹת	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
נִּבְנֶה we rebuilt	wayyiqtol · qal		חוֹמָה wall
תִּקָּשֵׁר it was joined together	wayyiqtol · niphal		חוֹמָה wall
יְהִי it belonged	wayyiqtol · qal	לֵב a heart
עֲשֽׂוֹת work	infinitive construct · 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.

So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof; for the people had a mind to work.

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:68.

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