Nehemiah 4:5 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: adversaries, we, work · What happens: say, not know, see, come, slay, cause · To what, where: midst, adversaries, work · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Nehemiah 4:5 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 — adversaries, we, work — and what happens in the verse to midst, adversaries, work, 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.

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ צָרֵ֗ינוּ לֹ֤א יֵדְעוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א יִרְא֔וּ עַ֛ד אֲשֶׁר־נָב֥וֹא אֶל־תּוֹכָ֖ם וַהֲרַגְנ֑וּם וְהִשְׁבַּ֖תְנוּ אֶת־הַמְּלָאכָֽה׃

And our adversaries said: 'They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.'

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 יֹּאמְר֣וּ	cc	and
2	יֹּאמְר֣וּ	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they said
3	צָרֵ֗י	צַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 יֹּאמְר֣וּ	nsubj	foes
4	נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 צָרֵ֗י	nmod:poss	our
5	לֹ֤א	לֹא	ADV	_	6 יֵדְעוּ֙	advmod	not
6	יֵדְעוּ֙	יָדַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יֹּאמְר֣וּ	ccomp	they will know
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 יִרְא֔וּ	cc	and
8	לֹ֣א	לֹא	ADV	_	9 יִרְא֔וּ	advmod	not
9	יִרְא֔וּ	רָאָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	6 יֵדְעוּ֙	conj	they will see
10	עַ֛ד	עַד	ADP	_	6 יֵדְעוּ֙	parataxis	until
11	אֲשֶׁר־	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	12 נָב֥וֹא	mark	that
12	נָב֥וֹא	בּוֹא	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	10 עַ֛ד	parataxis	we will come
13	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	14 תּוֹכ	case	into
14	תּוֹכ	תָּוֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	12 נָב֥וֹא	obl	of them
15	ָ֖ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 תּוֹכ	nmod:poss	the midst
16	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	17 הֲרַגְנ֑וּ	cc	and
17	הֲרַגְנ֑וּ	הָרַג	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	12 נָב֥וֹא	conj	we
18	ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 הֲרַגְנ֑וּ	obj	will kill them
19	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	20 הִשְׁבַּ֖תְנוּ	cc	and
20	הִשְׁבַּ֖תְנוּ	שָׁבַת	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur Person=1	12 נָב֥וֹא	conj	we will put an end to
21	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	23 מְּלָאכָֽה	case	(et)
22	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	23 מְּלָאכָֽה	det	the
23	מְּלָאכָֽה	מְלָאכָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	20 הִשְׁבַּ֖תְנוּ	obj	work
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	23 מְּלָאכָֽה	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: yes
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	who makes it happen (AA)
יֹּאמְרוּ they said	wayyiqtol · qal	צָרֵי foes
not יֵדְעוּ they will know	yiqtol · qal
not יִרְאוּ they will see	yiqtol · qal
נָבוֹא we will come	yiqtol · qal	צָרֵי foes
הֲרַגְנוּ we	weqatal · qal	צָרֵי foes	ם will kill them
הִשְׁבַּתְנוּ we will put an end to	weqatal · hiphil	מְּלָאכָֽה work		צָרֵי foes

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 our adversaries said: 'They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.'

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:73.

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