Nehemiah 6:3 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: I, work · What happens: send, say, do, not come down, cease, leave · To what, where: messengers, great work, work, you · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Nehemiah 6:3 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, work — and what happens in the verse to messengers, great work, work, you, 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.

וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֨ה עֲלֵיהֶ֤ם מַלְאָכִים֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר מְלָאכָ֤ה גְדוֹלָה֙ אֲנִ֣י עֹשֶׂ֔ה וְלֹ֥א אוּכַ֖ל לָרֶ֑דֶת לָ֣מָּה תִשְׁבַּ֤ת הַמְּלָאכָה֙ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר אַרְפֶּ֔הָ וְיָרַדְתִּ֖י אֲלֵיכֶֽם׃

And I sent messengers unto them, saying: 'I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?'

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 אֶשְׁלְח	cc	and
2	אֶשְׁלְח	שָׁלַח	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	root	root	I
3	ָ֨ה	ה	X	_	2 אֶשְׁלְח	nmod	sent
4	עֲלֵי	עַל	ADP	_	5 הֶ֤ם	case	to
5	הֶ֤ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 אֶשְׁלְח	obl	them
6	מַלְאָכִים֙	מַלְאָךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 אֶשְׁלְח	obj	messengers
7	לֵ	לְ	ADP	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 עֹשֶׂ֔ה	mark	(cmp)
8	אמֹ֔ר	אָמַר	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	7 לֵ	fixed
9	מְלָאכָ֤ה	מְלָאכָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	12 עֹשֶׂ֔ה	obj	a work
10	גְדוֹלָה֙	גָּדוֹל	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	9 מְלָאכָ֤ה	amod	great
11	אֲנִ֣י	אֲנִי	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 עֹשֶׂ֔ה	nsubj	I
12	עֹשֶׂ֔ה	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	2 אֶשְׁלְח	advcl	[am] doing
13	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 אוּכַ֖ל	cc	and
14	לֹ֥א	לֹא	ADV	_	15 אוּכַ֖ל	advmod	not
15	אוּכַ֖ל	יָכֹל	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	2 אֶשְׁלְח	conj	I am able
16	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	17 רֶ֑דֶת	case	to
17	רֶ֑דֶת	יָרַד	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	15 אוּכַ֖ל	xcomp	go down
18	לָ֣	לָמָה	ADP	_	19 מָּה	case
19	מָּה	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	20 תִשְׁבַּ֤ת	obl	why?
20	תִשְׁבַּ֤ת	שָׁבַת	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 אֶשְׁלְח	parataxis	will it cease
21	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	22 מְּלָאכָה֙	det	the
22	מְּלָאכָה֙	מְלָאכָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	20 תִשְׁבַּ֤ת	nsubj	work
23	כַּ	כְּ	ADP	_	20 תִשְׁבַּ֤ת	obl	when
24	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	25 אַרְפּ	mark
25	אַרְפּ	רָפָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=1	23 כַּ	acl:relcl	I
26	ֶ֔הָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 אַרְפּ	obj	will let it drop
27	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	28 יָרַדְתִּ֖י	cc	and
28	יָרַדְתִּ֖י	יָרַד	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	25 אַרְפּ	conj	I will go down
29	אֲלֵי	אֶל	ADP	_	30 כֶֽם	case	to
30	כֶֽם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 יָרַדְתִּ֖י	obl	you
31	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	30 כֶֽם	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: yes
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
אֶשְׁלְח I	wayyiqtol · qal		מַלְאָכִים messengers
אמֹר	infinitive construct · qal
עֹשֶׂה [am] doing	participle active · qal	אֲנִי I	מְלָאכָה a work
not אוּכַל I am able	yiqtol · qal
רֶדֶת go down	infinitive construct · qal
תִשְׁבַּת will it cease	yiqtol · qal	מְּלָאכָה work
אַרְפּ I	yiqtol · hiphil	ֶהָ will let it drop
יָרַדְתִּי I will go down	weqatal · 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.

And I sent messengers unto them, saying: 'I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?'

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:107.

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