Nehemiah 5:12 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: brethren, We, thou, I · What happens: say, restore, require, do, call, take · To what, where: brethren, nothing, priests, oath · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Nehemiah 5:12 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 — brethren, We, thou, I — and what happens in the verse to brethren, nothing, priests, oath, 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 נָשִׁ֗יב וּמֵהֶם֙ לֹ֣א נְבַקֵּ֔שׁ כֵּ֣ן נַעֲשֶׂ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר אַתָּ֣ה אוֹמֵ֑ר וָאֶקְרָא֙ אֶת־הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים וָֽאַשְׁבִּיעֵ֔ם לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃

Then said they: 'We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest.' Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.

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	נָשִׁ֗יב	שׁוּב	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur Person=1	2 יֹּאמְר֣וּ	ccomp	we will return [it]
4	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	8 נְבַקֵּ֔שׁ	cc	and
5	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	6 הֶם֙	case	from
6	הֶם֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 נְבַקֵּ֔שׁ	obl	them
7	לֹ֣א	לֹא	ADV	_	8 נְבַקֵּ֔שׁ	advmod	not
8	נְבַקֵּ֔שׁ	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur Person=1	3 נָשִׁ֗יב	conj	we will require [it]
9	כֵּ֣ן	כֵּן	ADV	_	10 נַעֲשֶׂ֔ה	advmod	so
10	נַעֲשֶׂ֔ה	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	3 נָשִׁ֗יב	parataxis	we will do
11	כַּ	כְּ	ADP	_	10 נַעֲשֶׂ֔ה	obl	just
12	אֲשֶׁ֖ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	14 אוֹמֵ֑ר	mark	as
13	אַתָּ֣ה	אַתָּה	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 אוֹמֵ֑ר	nsubj	you
14	אוֹמֵ֑ר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	11 כַּ	acl:relcl	[are] saying
15	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	16 אֶקְרָא֙	cc	and
16	אֶקְרָא֙	קָרָא	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	2 יֹּאמְר֣וּ	conj	I summoned
17	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	19 כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים	case	(et)
18	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	19 כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים	det	the
19	כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים	כֹּהֵן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	16 אֶקְרָא֙	obj	priests
20	וָֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 אַשְׁבִּיע	cc	and
21	אַשְׁבִּיע	שָׁבַע	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=1	2 יֹּאמְר֣וּ	conj	I
22	ֵ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 אַשְׁבִּיע	obj	made them swear an oath
23	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	24 עֲשׂ֖וֹת	case	to
24	עֲשׂ֖וֹת	עָשָׂה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	21 אַשְׁבִּיע	xcomp	do
25	כַּ	כְּ	ADP	_	27 דָּבָ֥ר	case	according
26	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	27 דָּבָ֥ר	det	to
27	דָּבָ֥ר	דָּבָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	24 עֲשׂ֖וֹת	obl	the manner
28	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	29 זֶּֽה	det	(the)
29	זֶּֽה	זֶה	DET	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 דָּבָ֥ר	det	this
30	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	29 זֶּֽה	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יֹּאמְרוּ they said	wayyiqtol · qal
נָשִׁיב we will return [it]	yiqtol · hiphil
not נְבַקֵּשׁ we will require [it]	yiqtol · piel
נַעֲשֶׂה we will do	yiqtol · qal
אוֹמֵר [are] saying	participle active · qal	אַתָּה you
אֶקְרָא I summoned	wayyiqtol · qal		כֹּהֲנִים priests
אַשְׁבִּיע I	wayyiqtol · hiphil	ֵם made them swear an oath
עֲשׂוֹת do	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.

Then said they: 'We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest.' Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.

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:97.

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