Nehemiah 6:12 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: I, God, Tobiah · What happens: discern, not send, pronounce, hire · To what, where: man, prophecy

This is Nehemiah 6:12 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 — I, God, Tobiah — and what happens in the verse to man, prophecy, 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.

וָאַכִּ֕ירָה וְהִנֵּ֥ה לֹֽא־אֱלֹהִ֖ים שְׁלָח֑וֹ כִּ֤י הַנְּבוּאָה֙ דִּבֶּ֣ר עָלַ֔י וְטוֹבִיָּ֥ה וְסַנְבַלַּ֖ט שְׂכָרֽוֹ׃

And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me, whereas Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

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 אַכִּ֕יר	cc	and
2	אַכִּ֕יר	נָכַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=1	root	root	I
3	ָה	ה	X	_	2 אַכִּ֕יר	nmod	recognized
4	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	8 שְׁלָח	cc	and
5	הִנֵּ֥ה	הִנֵּה	INTJ	_	8 שְׁלָח	discourse	there!
6	לֹֽא־	לֹא	ADV	_	8 שְׁלָח	advmod	not
7	אֱלֹהִ֖ים	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	8 שְׁלָח	nsubj	God
8	שְׁלָח	שָׁלַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 אַכִּ֕יר	conj	he
9	֑וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 שְׁלָח	obj	had sent him
10	כִּ֤י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	13 דִּבֶּ֣ר	mark	(dm)
11	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	12 נְּבוּאָה֙	det	the
12	נְּבוּאָה֙	נְבוּאָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	13 דִּבֶּ֣ר	obj	prophecy
13	דִּבֶּ֣ר	דָבַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3	2 אַכִּ֕יר	advcl	he had spoken
14	עָל	עַל	ADP	_	15 ַ֔י	case	on
15	ַ֔י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 דִּבֶּ֣ר	obl	me
16	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	20 שְׂכָר	cc	and
17	טוֹבִיָּ֥ה	טֹובִיָּה	PROPN	_	20 שְׂכָר	nsubj	Tobiah
18	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	19 סַנְבַלַּ֖ט	cc	and
19	סַנְבַלַּ֖ט	סַנְבַלַּט	PROPN	_	17 טוֹבִיָּ֥ה	conj	Sanballat
20	שְׂכָר	שָׂכַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 אַכִּ֕יר	conj	he
21	ֽוֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 שְׂכָר	obj	had hired him
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	21 ֽוֹ	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
אַכִּיר I	wayyiqtol · hiphil
not שְׁלָח he	qatal · qal	אֱלֹהִים God	וֹ had sent him
דִּבֶּר he had spoken	qatal · piel		נְּבוּאָה prophecy
שְׂכָר he	qatal · qal	טוֹבִיָּה Tobiah + סַנְבַלַּט Sanballat	ֽוֹ had hired him

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 discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me, whereas Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

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:116.

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