Nehemiah 5:8 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: I, We, Jews, ye, rulers · What happens: say, redeem, sell, hold, not find, pacify · To what, where: brethren, rulers, peace, word · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Nehemiah 5:8 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, We, Jews, ye, rulers — and what happens in the verse to brethren, rulers, peace, word, 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.

וָאֹמְרָ֣ה לָהֶ֗ם אֲנַ֣חְנוּ קָ֠נִינוּ אֶת־אַחֵ֨ינוּ הַיְּהוּדִ֜ים הַנִּמְכָּרִ֤ים לַגּוֹיִם֙ כְּדֵ֣י בָ֔נוּ וְגַם־אַתֶּ֛ם תִּמְכְּר֥וּ אֶת־אֲחֵיכֶ֖ם וְנִמְכְּרוּ־לָ֑נוּ וַֽיַּחֲרִ֔ישׁוּ וְלֹ֥א מָצְא֖וּ דָּבָֽר׃ס

And I said unto them: 'We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that sold themselves unto the heathen; and would ye nevertheless sell your brethren, and should they sell themselves unto us?' Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

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	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 אֹמְר	cc	and
2	אֹמְר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	root	root	I
3	ָ֣ה	ה	X	_	2 אֹמְר	nmod	said
4	ל	לְ	ADP	_	5 ָהֶ֗ם	case	to
5	ָהֶ֗ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 אֹמְר	obl	them
6	אֲנַ֣חְנוּ	אֲנַחְנוּ	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 קָ֠נִינוּ	nsubj	we
7	קָ֠נִינוּ	קָנָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	2 אֹמְר	ccomp	we have bought
8	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	9 אַחֵ֨י	case	(et)
9	אַחֵ֨י	אָח	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	7 קָ֠נִינוּ	obj	countrymen
10	נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 אַחֵ֨י	nmod:poss	our
11	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	12 יְּהוּדִ֜ים	det	the
12	יְּהוּדִ֜ים	יְהוּדִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	9 אַחֵ֨י	appos	Jews
13	הַ	הַ	SCONJ	_	14 נִּמְכָּרִ֤ים	mark	[who
14	נִּמְכָּרִ֤ים	מָכַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Plur	9 אַחֵ֨י	appos	had] sold themselves
15	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	17 גּוֹיִם֙	case	to
16	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	17 גּוֹיִם֙	det	the
17	גּוֹיִם֙	גּוֹי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	14 נִּמְכָּרִ֤ים	obl	nations
18	כְּ	כְּ	ADP	_	19 דֵ֣י	case	according
19	דֵ֣י	דַּי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 קָ֠נִינוּ	obl	to the sufficiency
20	ב	בְּ	ADP	_	21 ָ֔נוּ	case	in
21	ָ֔נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 דֵ֣י	nmod	us
22	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	25 תִּמְכְּר֥וּ	cc	and
23	גַם־	גַּם	ADV	_	25 תִּמְכְּר֥וּ	advmod	also
24	אַתֶּ֛ם	אַתֶּם	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 תִּמְכְּר֥וּ	nsubj	you
25	תִּמְכְּר֥וּ	מָכַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=2	7 קָ֠נִינוּ	conj	you sold
26	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	27 אֲחֵי	case	(et)
27	אֲחֵי	אָח	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	25 תִּמְכְּר֥וּ	obj	countrymen
28	כֶ֖ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 אֲחֵי	nmod:poss	your
29	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	30 נִמְכְּרוּ־	cc	and
30	נִמְכְּרוּ־	מָכַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Plur Person=3	7 קָ֠נִינוּ	conj	they were sold
31	ל	לְ	ADP	_	32 ָ֑נוּ	case	to
32	ָ֑נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 נִמְכְּרוּ־	obl	us
33	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	34 יַּחֲרִ֔ישׁוּ	cc	and
34	יַּחֲרִ֔ישׁוּ	חָרֵשׁ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur Person=3	2 אֹמְר	conj	they were silent
35	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	37 מָצְא֖וּ	cc	and
36	לֹ֥א	לֹא	ADV	_	37 מָצְא֖וּ	advmod	not
37	מָצְא֖וּ	מָצָא	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 אֹמְר	conj	they found
38	דָּבָֽר	דָּבָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	37 מָצְא֖וּ	obj	a word
39	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	38 דָּבָֽר	punct
40	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	38 דָּבָֽר	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)
אֹמְר I	wayyiqtol · qal
קָנִינוּ we have bought	qatal · qal	אֲנַחְנוּ we	אַחֵי countrymen
נִּמְכָּרִים had] sold themselves	participle passive · niphal		אַחֵי countrymen
תִּמְכְּרוּ you sold	yiqtol · qal	אַתֶּם you	אֲחֵי countrymen
נִמְכְּרוּ־ they were sold	weqatal · niphal		אֲחֵי countrymen
יַּחֲרִישׁוּ they were silent	wayyiqtol · hiphil
not מָצְאוּ they found	qatal · qal		דָּבָֽר a word

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 I said unto them: 'We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that sold themselves unto the heathen; and would ye nevertheless sell your brethren, and should they sell themselves unto us?' Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

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:93.

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