Nehemiah 8:5 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: Ezra, people · What happens: open, be, stand up, sight · To what, where: book, sight, people

This is Nehemiah 8:5 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, people — and what happens in the verse to book, sight, people, 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.

וַיִּפְתַּ֨ח עֶזְרָ֤א הַסֵּ֙פֶר֙ לְעֵינֵ֣י כָל־הָעָ֔ם כִּֽי־מֵעַ֥ל כָּל־הָעָ֖ם הָיָ֑ה וּכְפִתְח֖וֹ עָֽמְד֥וּ כָל־הָעָֽם׃

And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people — for he was above all the people — and when he opened it, all the people stood up.

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 יִּפְתַּ֨ח	cc	and
2	יִּפְתַּ֨ח	פָּתַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he opened
3	עֶזְרָ֤א	עֶזְרָא	PROPN	_	2 יִּפְתַּ֨ח	nsubj	Ezra
4	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	5 סֵּ֙פֶר֙	det	the
5	סֵּ֙פֶר֙	סֵפֶר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יִּפְתַּ֨ח	obj	scroll
6	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	7 עֵינֵ֣י	case	to
7	עֵינֵ֣י	עַיִן	NOUN	Number=Dual	2 יִּפְתַּ֨ח	obl	the eyes
8	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 עֵינֵ֣י	compound:smixut	of all
9	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	10 עָ֔ם	det	the
10	עָ֔ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 כָל־	compound:smixut	people
11	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	14 כָּל־	mark	(dm)
12	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	14 כָּל־	case	(from)
13	עַ֥ל	עַל	ADP	_	14 כָּל־	case	above
14	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יִּפְתַּ֨ח	advcl	all
15	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	16 עָ֖ם	det	the
16	עָ֖ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 כָּל־	compound:smixut	people
17	הָיָ֑ה	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	14 כָּל־	cop	he was
18	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	22 עָֽמְד֥וּ	cc	and
19	כְ	כְּ	ADP	_	20 פִתְח	case	just
20	פִתְח	פָּתַח	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	22 עָֽמְד֥וּ	advcl	as
21	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 פִתְח	nsubj	he opened [it]
22	עָֽמְד֥וּ	עָמַד	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יִּפְתַּ֨ח	conj	they stood up
23	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	22 עָֽמְד֥וּ	nsubj	all
24	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	25 עָֽם	det	the
25	עָֽם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	23 כָל־	compound:smixut	people
26	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	25 עָֽם	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יִּפְתַּח he opened	wayyiqtol · qal	עֶזְרָא Ezra	סֵּפֶר scroll
הָיָה he was	qatal · qal	עֶזְרָא Ezra
פִתְח as	infinitive construct · qal	וֹ he opened [it]	סֵּפֶר scroll
עָֽמְדוּ they stood up	qatal · qal	עָֽם people

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 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people — for he was above all the people — and when he opened it, all the people stood up.

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:200.

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