Nehemiah 5:18 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: that, I, service · What happens: prepare, be, not demand, sort · To what, where: one ox, fowls, bread, wine

This is Nehemiah 5:18 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 — that, I, service — and what happens in the verse to one ox, fowls, bread, wine, 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.

וַאֲשֶׁר֩ הָיָ֨ה נַעֲשֶׂ֜ה לְי֣וֹם אֶחָ֗ד שׁ֣וֹר אֶחָ֞ד צֹ֠אן שֵׁשׁ־בְּרֻר֤וֹת וְצִפֳּרִים֙ נַֽעֲשׂוּ־לִ֔י וּבֵ֨ין עֲשֶׂ֧רֶת יָמִ֛ים בְּכָל־יַ֖יִן לְהַרְבֵּ֑ה וְעִם־זֶ֗ה לֶ֤חֶם הַפֶּחָה֙ לֹ֣א בִקַּ֔שְׁתִּי כִּֽי־כָֽבְדָ֥ה הָעֲבֹדָ֖ה עַל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃

Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep, also fowls were prepared for me; and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine; yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the service was heavy upon this people.

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	_	8 שׁ֣וֹר	cc	and [that]
2	אֲשֶׁר֩	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	4 נַעֲשֶׂ֜ה	mark	which
3	הָיָ֨ה	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	4 נַעֲשֶׂ֜ה	cop	it was
4	נַעֲשֶׂ֜ה	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Sing	8 שׁ֣וֹר	nsubj	made
5	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	6 י֣וֹם	case	for
6	י֣וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 נַעֲשֶׂ֜ה	obl	a day
7	אֶחָ֗ד	אֶחָד	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	6 י֣וֹם	nummod	one
8	שׁ֣וֹר	שׁוֹר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	root	root	[was] an ox
9	אֶחָ֞ד	אֶחָד	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 שׁ֣וֹר	nummod	one
10	צֹ֠אן	צֹאן	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 שׁ֣וֹר	conj	sheep
11	שֵׁשׁ־	שֵׁשׁ	NUM	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	10 צֹ֠אן	nummod	six
12	בְּרֻר֤וֹת	בָּרַר	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur	10 צֹ֠אן	nmod	chosen
13	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 נַֽעֲשׂוּ־	cc	and
14	צִפֳּרִים֙	צִפּוֹר	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 נַֽעֲשׂוּ־	nsubj	poultry
15	נַֽעֲשׂוּ־	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Plur Person=3	8 שׁ֣וֹר	conj	they were made
16	ל	לְ	ADP	_	17 ִ֔י	case	for
17	ִ֔י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 נַֽעֲשׂוּ־	obl	me
18	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 יָמִ֛ים	cc	and
19	בֵ֨ין	בֵּין	ADP	_	21 יָמִ֛ים	case	between
20	עֲשֶׂ֧רֶת	עֲשָׂרָה	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 יָמִ֛ים	nummod	ten
21	יָמִ֛ים	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	8 שׁ֣וֹר	conj	days
22	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	23 כָל־	case	in
23	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 יָמִ֛ים	obl	all
24	יַ֖יִן	יַיִן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	23 כָל־	compound:smixut	wine
25	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	26 הַרְבֵּ֑ה	case	to
26	הַרְבֵּ֑ה	רָבָה	ADV	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	21 יָמִ֛ים	obl	abundance
27	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	34 בִקַּ֔שְׁתִּי	cc	and
28	עִם־	עִם	ADP	_	29 זֶ֗ה	case	with
29	זֶ֗ה	זֶה	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 בִקַּ֔שְׁתִּי	obl	this
30	לֶ֤חֶם	לֶחֶם	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 בִקַּ֔שְׁתִּי	obj	the food
31	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	32 פֶּחָה֙	det	of
32	פֶּחָה֙	פֶּחָה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	30 לֶ֤חֶם	compound:smixut	the governor
33	לֹ֣א	לֹא	ADV	_	34 בִקַּ֔שְׁתִּי	advmod	not
34	בִקַּ֔שְׁתִּי	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=1	8 שׁ֣וֹר	conj	I sought
35	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	36 כָֽבְדָ֥ה	mark	(dm)
36	כָֽבְדָ֥ה	כָּבֵד	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	8 שׁ֣וֹר	advcl	it was heavy
37	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	38 עֲבֹדָ֖ה	det	the
38	עֲבֹדָ֖ה	עֲבֹדָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	36 כָֽבְדָ֥ה	nsubj	service
39	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	41 עָ֥ם	case	on
40	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	41 עָ֥ם	det	the
41	עָ֥ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	36 כָֽבְדָ֥ה	obl	people
42	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	43 זֶּֽה	det	(the)
43	זֶּֽה	זֶה	DET	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 עָ֥ם	det	this
44	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	43 זֶּֽה	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
בְּרֻרוֹת chosen	participle passive · qal		צֹאן sheep
נַֽעֲשׂוּ־ they were made	qatal · niphal		צִפֳּרִים poultry
not בִקַּשְׁתִּי I sought	qatal · piel		לֶחֶם the food
כָֽבְדָה it was heavy	qatal · qal	עֲבֹדָה service

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.

Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep, also fowls were prepared for me; and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine; yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the service was heavy upon this people.

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:103.

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