Nehemiah 8:1 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: people, broad place, LORD · What happens: gather, be, speak, bring, command · To what, where: people, book, Israel · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Nehemiah 8:1 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 — people, broad place, LORD — and what happens in the verse to people, book, Israel, 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.

וַיֵּאָסְפ֤וּ כָל־הָעָם֙ כְּאִ֣ישׁ אֶחָ֔ד אֶל־הָ֣רְח֔וֹב אֲשֶׁ֖ר לִפְנֵ֣י שַֽׁעַר־הַמָּ֑יִם וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ לְעֶזְרָ֣א הַסֹּפֵ֔ר לְהָבִ֗יא אֶת־סֵ֙פֶר֙ תּוֹרַ֣ת מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

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	_	2 יֵּאָסְפ֤וּ	cc	and
2	יֵּאָסְפ֤וּ	אָסַף	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they gathered
3	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יֵּאָסְפ֤וּ	nsubj	all
4	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	5 עָם֙	det	the
5	עָם֙	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	3 כָל־	compound:smixut	people
6	כְּ	כְּ	ADP	_	7 אִ֣ישׁ	case	like
7	אִ֣ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יֵּאָסְפ֤וּ	obl	a person
8	אֶחָ֔ד	אֶחָד	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 אִ֣ישׁ	nummod	one
9	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	11 רְח֔וֹב	case	to
10	הָ֣	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 רְח֔וֹב	det	the open
11	רְח֔וֹב	רְחֹב	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	2 יֵּאָסְפ֤וּ	obl	space
12	אֲשֶׁ֖ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	14 פְנֵ֣י	mark	which
13	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	14 פְנֵ֣י	case	[was]
14	פְנֵ֣י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 רְח֔וֹב	acl:relcl	before
15	שַֽׁעַר־	שַׁעַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 פְנֵ֣י	compound:smixut	the gate
16	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	17 מָּ֑יִם	det	of
17	מָּ֑יִם	מַיִם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	15 שַֽׁעַר־	compound:smixut	the water
18	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	19 יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙	cc	and
19	יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יֵּאָסְפ֤וּ	conj	they said
20	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	21 עֶזְרָ֣א	case	to
21	עֶזְרָ֣א	עֶזְרָא	PROPN	_	19 יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙	obl	Ezra
22	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	23 סֹּפֵ֔ר	det	the
23	סֹּפֵ֔ר	סֹפֵר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 עֶזְרָ֣א	appos	scribe
24	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	25 הָבִ֗יא	case	to
25	הָבִ֗יא	בּוֹא	VERB	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	19 יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙	advcl	bring
26	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	27 סֵ֙פֶר֙	case	(et)
27	סֵ֙פֶר֙	סֵפֶר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	25 הָבִ֗יא	obj	the scroll
28	תּוֹרַ֣ת	תּוֹרָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	27 סֵ֙פֶר֙	compound:smixut	of the law
29	מֹשֶׁ֔ה	מֹשֶׁה	PROPN	_	28 תּוֹרַ֣ת	compound:smixut	of Moses
30	אֲשֶׁר־	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	31 צִוָּ֥ה	mark	which
31	צִוָּ֥ה	צָוָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3	27 סֵ֙פֶר֙	acl:relcl	he had commanded
32	יְהוָ֖ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	31 צִוָּ֥ה	nsubj	Yahweh
33	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	34 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל	case	(et)
34	יִשְׂרָאֵֽל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	31 צִוָּ֥ה	obj	Israel
35	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	34 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
יֵּאָסְפוּ they gathered	wayyiqtol · niphal		עָם people
יֹּֽאמְרוּ they said	wayyiqtol · qal	עָם people
הָבִיא bring	infinitive construct · hiphil	סֵפֶר the scroll			עֶזְרָא Ezra
צִוָּה he had commanded	qatal · piel	יְהוָה Yahweh	סֵפֶר the scroll	יִשְׂרָאֵֽל Israel

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.

all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

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:196.

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