Nehemiah 8:12 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: people · What happens: go, eat, drink, send, make, understand · To what, where: way, portions, great mirth, words

This is Nehemiah 8:12 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 — people — and what happens in the verse to way, portions, great mirth, words, 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.

וַיֵּלְכ֨וּ כָל־הָעָ֜ם לֶאֱכֹ֤ל וְלִשְׁתּוֹת֙ וּלְשַׁלַּ֣ח מָנ֔וֹת וְלַעֲשׂ֖וֹת שִׂמְחָ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֑ה כִּ֤י הֵבִ֙ינוּ֙ בַּדְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הוֹדִ֖יעוּ לָהֶֽם׃ס

And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

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 יֵּלְכ֨וּ	cc	and
2	יֵּלְכ֨וּ	הלך	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they went
3	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יֵּלְכ֨וּ	nsubj	all
4	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	5 עָ֜ם	det	the
5	עָ֜ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	3 כָל־	compound:smixut	people
6	לֶ	לְ	ADP	_	7 אֱכֹ֤ל	case	to
7	אֱכֹ֤ל	אָכַל	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	2 יֵּלְכ֨וּ	advcl	eat
8	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	10 שְׁתּוֹת֙	cc	and
9	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	10 שְׁתּוֹת֙	case	to
10	שְׁתּוֹת֙	שָׁתָה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	7 אֱכֹ֤ל	conj	drink
11	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	13 שַׁלַּ֣ח	cc	and
12	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	13 שַׁלַּ֣ח	case	to
13	שַׁלַּ֣ח	שָׁלַח	VERB	HebBinyan=PIEL	7 אֱכֹ֤ל	conj	send
14	מָנ֔וֹת	מָנָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	13 שַׁלַּ֣ח	obj	portions
15	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	17 עֲשׂ֖וֹת	cc	and
16	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	17 עֲשׂ֖וֹת	case	to
17	עֲשׂ֖וֹת	עָשָׂה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	7 אֱכֹ֤ל	conj	make
18	שִׂמְחָ֣ה	שִׂמְחָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	17 עֲשׂ֖וֹת	obj	joy
19	גְדוֹלָ֑ה	גָּדוֹל	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	18 שִׂמְחָ֣ה	amod	great
20	כִּ֤י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	21 הֵבִ֙ינוּ֙	mark	(dm)
21	הֵבִ֙ינוּ֙	בִּין	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יֵּלְכ֨וּ	advcl	they had understood
22	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	24 דְּבָרִ֔ים	case	(in)
23	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	24 דְּבָרִ֔ים	det	the
24	דְּבָרִ֔ים	דָּבָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	21 הֵבִ֙ינוּ֙	obl	words
25	אֲשֶׁ֥ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	26 הוֹדִ֖יעוּ	mark	which
26	הוֹדִ֖יעוּ	יָדַע	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur Person=3	24 דְּבָרִ֔ים	acl:relcl	they had made known
27	ל	לְ	ADP	_	28 ָהֶֽם	case	to
28	ָהֶֽם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 הוֹדִ֖יעוּ	obl	them
29	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	28 ָהֶֽם	punct
30	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	28 ָהֶֽם	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יֵּלְכוּ they went	wayyiqtol · qal	עָם people
אֱכֹל eat	infinitive construct · qal	עָם people
שְׁתּוֹת drink	infinitive construct · qal	עָם people
שַׁלַּח send	infinitive construct · piel	עָם people	מָנוֹת portions
עֲשׂוֹת make	infinitive construct · qal	עָם people	שִׂמְחָה joy
הֵבִינוּ they had understood	qatal · hiphil	עָם people
הוֹדִיעוּ they had made known	qatal · hiphil

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 all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

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:207.

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