Nehemiah 8:13 נְחֶמְיָה

What happens: gather, give, word · To what, where: heads, attention, words, Law

This is Nehemiah 8:13 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: what happens in the verse to heads, attention, words, Law, 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.

וּבַיּ֣וֹם הַשֵּׁנִ֡י נֶאֶסְפוּ֩ רָאשֵׁ֨י הָאָב֜וֹת לְכָל־הָעָ֗ם הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙ וְהַלְוִיִּ֔ם אֶל־עֶזְרָ֖א הַסֹּפֵ֑ר וּלְהַשְׂכִּ֖יל אֶל־דִּבְרֵ֥י הַתּוֹרָֽה׃

And on the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers' houses of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words of the Law.

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	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	7 נֶאֶסְפוּ֩	cc	and
2	בַ	בְּ	ADP	_	4 יּ֣וֹם	case	on
3	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	4 יּ֣וֹם	det	the
4	יּ֣וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 נֶאֶסְפוּ֩	obl	day
5	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	6 שֵּׁנִ֡י	det	(the)
6	שֵּׁנִ֡י	שֵׁנִי	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 יּ֣וֹם	nummod	second
7	נֶאֶסְפוּ֩	אָסַף	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they gathered
8	רָאשֵׁ֨י	רֹאשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	7 נֶאֶסְפוּ֩	nsubj	the heads
9	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	10 אָב֜וֹת	det	of
10	אָב֜וֹת	אָב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	8 רָאשֵׁ֨י	compound:smixut	the fathers
11	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	12 כָל־	case	of
12	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 רָאשֵׁ֨י	nmod	all
13	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	14 עָ֗ם	det	the
14	עָ֗ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	12 כָל־	compound:smixut	people
15	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	16 כֹּֽהֲנִים֙	det	the
16	כֹּֽהֲנִים֙	כֹּהֵן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	8 רָאשֵׁ֨י	conj	priests
17	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	19 לְוִיִּ֔ם	cc	and
18	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	19 לְוִיִּ֔ם	det	the
19	לְוִיִּ֔ם	לֵוִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	8 רָאשֵׁ֨י	conj	Levites
20	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	21 עֶזְרָ֖א	case	to
21	עֶזְרָ֖א	עֶזְרָא	PROPN	_	7 נֶאֶסְפוּ֩	obl	Ezra
22	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	23 סֹּפֵ֑ר	det	the
23	סֹּפֵ֑ר	סֹפֵר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 עֶזְרָ֖א	appos	scribe
24	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	26 הַשְׂכִּ֖יל	cc	and
25	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	26 הַשְׂכִּ֖יל	case	to
26	הַשְׂכִּ֖יל	שָׂכַל	VERB	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	21 עֶזְרָ֖א	conj	gain insight
27	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	28 דִּבְרֵ֥י	case	into
28	דִּבְרֵ֥י	דָּבָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	26 הַשְׂכִּ֖יל	obl	the words
29	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	30 תּוֹרָֽה	det	of
30	תּוֹרָֽה	תּוֹרָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	28 דִּבְרֵ֥י	compound:smixut	the law
31	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	30 תּוֹרָֽה	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
נֶאֶסְפוּ they gathered	qatal · niphal		רָאשֵׁי the heads + כֹּֽהֲנִים priests + לְוִיִּם Levites
הַשְׂכִּיל gain insight	infinitive construct · hiphil	רָאשֵׁי the heads + כֹּֽהֲנִים priests + לְוִיִּם Levites

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 on the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers' houses of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words of the Law.

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:208.

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