Nehemiah 8:3 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: Ezra, broad place, ears · What happens: read, be, understand · To what, where: presence

This is Nehemiah 8:3 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 — Ezra, broad place, ears — and what happens in the verse to presence, 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.

וַיִּקְרָא־בוֹ֩ לִפְנֵ֨י הָרְח֜וֹב אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ לִפְנֵ֣י שַֽׁעַר־הַמַּ֗יִם מִן־הָאוֹר֙ עַד־מַחֲצִ֣ית הַיּ֔וֹם נֶ֛גֶד הָאֲנָשִׁ֥ים וְהַנָּשִׁ֖ים וְהַמְּבִינִ֑ים וְאָזְנֵ֥י כָל־הָעָ֖ם אֶל־סֵ֥פֶר הַתּוֹרָֽה׃

And he read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book 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	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יִּקְרָא־	cc	and
2	יִּקְרָא־	קָרָא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he read aloud
3	ב	בְּ	ADP	_	4 וֹ֩	case	in
4	וֹ֩	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 יִּקְרָא־	obl	it
5	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	6 פְנֵ֨י	case	before
6	פְנֵ֨י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 יִּקְרָא־	obl
7	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	8 רְח֜וֹב	det	the open
8	רְח֜וֹב	רְחֹב	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	6 פְנֵ֨י	compound:smixut	space
9	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	12 פְנֵ֣י	mark	which
10	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	9 אֲשֶׁ֣ר	punct
11	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	12 פְנֵ֣י	case	[was]
12	פְנֵ֣י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 רְח֜וֹב	acl:relcl	before
13	שַֽׁעַר־	שַׁעַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	12 פְנֵ֣י	compound:smixut	the gate
14	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	15 מַּ֗יִם	det	of
15	מַּ֗יִם	מַיִם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	13 שַֽׁעַר־	compound:smixut	the water
16	מִן־	מִן	ADP	_	18 אוֹר֙	case	from
17	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	18 אוֹר֙	det	the
18	אוֹר֙	אוֹר	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 יִּקְרָא־	obl	light
19	עַד־	עַד	ADP	_	20 מַחֲצִ֣ית	case	until
20	מַחֲצִ֣ית	מַחֲצִית	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	18 אוֹר֙	conj	the middle
21	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	22 יּ֔וֹם	det	of
22	יּ֔וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 מַחֲצִ֣ית	compound:smixut	the day
23	נֶ֛גֶד	נֶגֶד	NOUN	_	2 יִּקְרָא־	obl	before
24	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	25 אֲנָשִׁ֥ים	det	the
25	אֲנָשִׁ֥ים	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	23 נֶ֛גֶד	compound:smixut	men
26	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	28 נָּשִׁ֖ים	cc	and
27	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	28 נָּשִׁ֖ים	det	the
28	נָּשִׁ֖ים	אִשָּׁה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	25 אֲנָשִׁ֥ים	conj	women
29	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	31 מְּבִינִ֑ים	cc	and
30	הַ	הַ	SCONJ	_	31 מְּבִינִ֑ים	mark	[those
31	מְּבִינִ֑ים	בִּין	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur	25 אֲנָשִׁ֥ים	conj	who] understood
32	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	38 סֵ֥פֶר	cc	and
33	אָזְנֵ֥י	אֹזֶן	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Dual	38 סֵ֥פֶר	nsubj	the ears
34	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	33 אָזְנֵ֥י	compound:smixut	of all
35	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	36 עָ֖ם	det	the
36	עָ֖ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	34 כָל־	compound:smixut	people
37	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	38 סֵ֥פֶר	case	[were] to
38	סֵ֥פֶר	סֵפֶר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יִּקְרָא־	conj	the scroll
39	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	40 תּוֹרָֽה	det	of
40	תּוֹרָֽה	תּוֹרָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	38 סֵ֥פֶר	compound:smixut	the law
41	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	40 תּוֹרָֽה	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)
יִּקְרָא־ he read aloud	wayyiqtol · 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 he read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book 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:198.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.8.3/