Nehemiah 4:16 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: I, one, stars · What happens: say, let, lodge, be, labour · To what, where: guard, us · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Nehemiah 4:16 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 — I, one, stars — and what happens in the verse to guard, us, 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.

גַּ֣ם בָּעֵ֤ת הַהִיא֙ אָמַ֣רְתִּי לָעָ֔ם אִ֣ישׁ וְנַעֲר֔וֹ יָלִ֖ינוּ בְּת֣וֹךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְהָֽיוּ־לָ֧נוּ הַלַּ֛יְלָה מִשְׁמָ֖ר וְהַיּ֥וֹם מְלָאכָֽה׃

Likewise at the same time said I unto the people: 'Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labour in the day.'

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	גַּ֣ם	גַּם	ADV	_	4 עֵ֤ת	advmod	also
2	בָּ	בְּ	ADP	_	4 עֵ֤ת	case	at
3	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	4 עֵ֤ת	det	the
4	עֵ֤ת	עֵת	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 אָמַ֣רְתִּי	obl	time
5	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	6 הִיא֙	det	(the)
6	הִיא֙	הִיא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 עֵ֤ת	det	that
7	אָמַ֣רְתִּי	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	root	root	I said
8	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	10 עָ֔ם	case	to
9	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	10 עָ֔ם	det	the
10	עָ֔ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 אָמַ֣רְתִּי	obl	people
11	אִ֣ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 יָלִ֖ינוּ	nsubj	each
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	13 נַעֲר	cc	and
13	נַעֲר	נַעַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 אִ֣ישׁ	conj	servant
14	֔וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 נַעֲר	nmod:poss	his
15	יָלִ֖ינוּ	לין	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	7 אָמַ֣רְתִּי	ccomp	let them spend the night
16	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	17 ת֣וֹךְ	case	in
17	ת֣וֹךְ	תָּוֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 יָלִ֖ינוּ	obl	the midst
18	יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם	יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם	PROPN	_	17 ת֣וֹךְ	compound:smixut	of Jerusalem
19	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	25 מִשְׁמָ֖ר	cc	and
20	הָֽיוּ־	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	25 מִשְׁמָ֖ר	cop	they will be
21	ל	לְ	ADP	_	22 ָ֧נוּ	case	for
22	ָ֧נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 מִשְׁמָ֖ר	obl	us
23	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	24 לַּ֛יְלָה	det	the
24	לַּ֛יְלָה	לַיְלָה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	25 מִשְׁמָ֖ר	obl	night
25	מִשְׁמָ֖ר	מִשְׁמָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 יָלִ֖ינוּ	conj	a guard
26	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	28 יּ֥וֹם	cc	and
27	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	28 יּ֥וֹם	det	the
28	יּ֥וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	25 מִשְׁמָ֖ר	conj	day
29	מְלָאכָֽה	מְלָאכָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	28 יּ֥וֹם	obj	work
30	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	29 מְלָאכָֽה	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
the frame alone: decl · assert · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)
אָמַרְתִּי I said	qatal · qal
יָלִינוּ let them spend the night	yiqtol · qal	אִישׁ each + נַעֲר servant
הָֽיוּ־ they will be	weqatal · qal	אִישׁ each + נַעֲר servant

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.

Likewise at the same time said I unto the people: 'Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labour in the day.'

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:84.

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