Nehemiah 5:15 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: former governors, servants · What happens: be, lay, take, lord, fear · To what, where: burdens, forty shekels, God

This is Nehemiah 5:15 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 — former governors, servants — and what happens in the verse to burdens, forty shekels, God, 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.

וְהַפַּחוֹת֩ הָרִאשֹׁנִ֨ים אֲשֶׁר־לְפָנַ֜י הִכְבִּ֣ידוּ עַל־הָעָ֗ם וַיִּקְח֨וּ מֵהֶ֜ם בְּלֶ֤חֶם וָיַ֙יִן֙ אַחַר֙ כֶּֽסֶף־שְׁקָלִ֣ים אַרְבָּעִ֔ים גַּ֥ם נַעֲרֵיהֶ֖ם שָׁלְט֣וּ עַל־הָעָ֑ם וַאֲנִי֙ לֹא־עָשִׂ֣יתִי כֵ֔ן מִפְּנֵ֖י יִרְאַ֥ת אֱלֹהִֽים׃

But the former governors that were before me laid burdens upon the people, and took of them for bread and wine above forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants lorded over the people; but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

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	_	10 הִכְבִּ֣ידוּ	cc	and
2	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	3 פַּחוֹת֩	det	the
3	פַּחוֹת֩	פֶּחָה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	10 הִכְבִּ֣ידוּ	nsubj	governors
4	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	5 רִאשֹׁנִ֨ים	det	(the)
5	רִאשֹׁנִ֨ים	רִאשׁוֹן	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	3 פַּחוֹת֩	amod	former
6	אֲשֶׁר־	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	8 פָנ	mark	who
7	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	8 פָנ	case	[were]
8	פָנ	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 פַּחוֹת֩	acl:relcl	before
9	ַ֜י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 פָנ	nmod:poss	me
10	הִכְבִּ֣ידוּ	כָּבֵד	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they made heavy
11	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	13 עָ֗ם	case	on
12	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	13 עָ֗ם	det	the
13	עָ֗ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	10 הִכְבִּ֣ידוּ	obl	people
14	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 יִּקְח֨וּ	cc	and
15	יִּקְח֨וּ	לָקַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	10 הִכְבִּ֣ידוּ	conj	they took
16	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	17 הֶ֜ם	case	from
17	הֶ֜ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 יִּקְח֨וּ	obl	them
18	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	19 לֶ֤חֶם	case	(in)
19	לֶ֤חֶם	לֶחֶם	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 יִּקְח֨וּ	obl	food
20	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 יַ֙יִן֙	cc	and
21	יַ֙יִן֙	יַיִן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	19 לֶ֤חֶם	conj	wine
22	אַחַר֙	אַחַר	ADV	_	15 יִּקְח֨וּ	advmod	after
23	כֶּֽסֶף־	כֶּסֶף	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	22 אַחַר֙	nmod	silver
24	שְׁקָלִ֣ים	שֶׁקֶל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	23 כֶּֽסֶף־	appos	shekels
25	אַרְבָּעִ֔ים	אַרְבַּע	NUM	Number=Plur	24 שְׁקָלִ֣ים	nummod	forty
26	גַּ֥ם	גַּם	ADV	_	27 נַעֲרֵי	advmod	also
27	נַעֲרֵי	נַעַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	29 שָׁלְט֣וּ	nsubj	servants
28	הֶ֖ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 נַעֲרֵי	nmod:poss	their
29	שָׁלְט֣וּ	שָׁלַט	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	10 הִכְבִּ֣ידוּ	parataxis	they domineered
30	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	32 עָ֑ם	case	over
31	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	32 עָ֑ם	det	the
32	עָ֑ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	29 שָׁלְט֣וּ	obl	people
33	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	36 עָשִׂ֣יתִי	cc	and
34	אֲנִי֙	אֲנִי	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 עָשִׂ֣יתִי	nsubj	I
35	לֹא־	לֹא	ADV	_	36 עָשִׂ֣יתִי	advmod	not
36	עָשִׂ֣יתִי	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	10 הִכְבִּ֣ידוּ	conj	I did
37	כֵ֔ן	כֵּן	ADV	_	36 עָשִׂ֣יתִי	advmod	thus
38	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	39 פְּנֵ֖י	case	because
39	פְּנֵ֖י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 עָשִׂ֣יתִי	obl	of
40	יִרְאַ֥ת	יִרְאָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	39 פְּנֵ֖י	compound:smixut	the fear
41	אֱלֹהִֽים	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	40 יִרְאַ֥ת	compound:smixut	of God
42	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	41 אֱלֹהִֽים	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)
הִכְבִּידוּ they made heavy	qatal · hiphil	פַּחוֹת governors
יִּקְחוּ they took	wayyiqtol · qal	פַּחוֹת governors
שָׁלְטוּ they domineered	qatal · qal	נַעֲרֵי servants
not עָשִׂיתִי I did	qatal · qal	אֲנִי I

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.

But the former governors that were before me laid burdens upon the people, and took of them for bread and wine above forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants lorded over the people; but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

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:100.

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