Nehemiah 8:7 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: Jeshua, people · What happens: cause, understand, stand · To what, where: people, Law, place

This is Nehemiah 8:7 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 — Jeshua, people — and what happens in the verse to people, Law, place, 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.

וְיֵשׁ֡וּעַ וּבָנִ֡י וְשֵׁרֵ֥בְיָ֣ה ׀ יָמִ֡ין עַקּ֡וּב שַׁבְּתַ֣י ׀ הֽוֹדִיָּ֡ה מַעֲשֵׂיָ֡ה קְלִיטָ֣א עֲזַרְיָה֩ יוֹזָבָ֨ד חָנָ֤ן פְּלָאיָה֙ וְהַלְוִיִּ֔ם מְבִינִ֥ים אֶת־הָעָ֖ם לַתּוֹרָ֑ה וְהָעָ֖ם עַל־עָמְדָֽם׃

Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, even the Levites, caused the people to understand the Law; and the people stood in their place.

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	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	22 מְבִינִ֥ים	cc	and
2	יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	יֵשׁוּעַ	PROPN	_	22 מְבִינִ֥ים	nsubj	Jeshua
3	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	4 בָנִ֡י	cc	and
4	בָנִ֡י	בָּנִי	PROPN	_	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Bani
5	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	6 שֵׁרֵ֥בְיָ֣ה	cc	and
6	שֵׁרֵ֥בְיָ֣ה	שֵׁרֵבְיָה	PROPN	_	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Sherebiah
7	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	6 שֵׁרֵ֥בְיָ֣ה	punct
8	יָמִ֡ין	יָמִין	PROPN	_	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Jamin
9	עַקּ֡וּב	עַקּוּב	PROPN	_	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Akkub
10	שַׁבְּתַ֣י	שַׁבְּתַי	PROPN	_	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Shabbethai
11	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	10 שַׁבְּתַ֣י	punct
12	הֽוֹדִיָּ֡ה	הוֹדִיָּה	PROPN	_	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Hodiah
13	מַעֲשֵׂיָ֡ה	מַעֲשֵׂיָה	PROPN	_	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Maaseiah
14	קְלִיטָ֣א	קְלִיטָא	PROPN	_	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Kelita
15	עֲזַרְיָה֩	עֲזַרְיָה	PROPN	_	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Azariah
16	יוֹזָבָ֨ד	יוֹזָבָד	PROPN	_	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Jozabad
17	חָנָ֤ן	חָנָן	PROPN	_	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Hanan
18	פְּלָאיָה֙	פְּלָאיָה	PROPN	_	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Pelaiah
19	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 לְוִיִּ֔ם	cc	and
20	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	21 לְוִיִּ֔ם	det	the
21	לְוִיִּ֔ם	לֵוִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 יֵשׁ֡וּעַ	conj	Levites
22	מְבִינִ֥ים	בִּין	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur	root	root	[were] causing to understand
23	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	25 עָ֖ם	case	(et)
24	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	25 עָ֖ם	det	the
25	עָ֖ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	22 מְבִינִ֥ים	obj	people
26	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	28 תּוֹרָ֑ה	case	(to)
27	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	28 תּוֹרָ֑ה	det	the
28	תּוֹרָ֑ה	תּוֹרָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	22 מְבִינִ֥ים	obl	law
29	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	33 עָמְד	cc	and
30	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	31 עָ֖ם	det	the
31	עָ֖ם	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	33 עָמְד	nsubj	people
32	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	33 עָמְד	case	[were] at
33	עָמְד	עֹמֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	22 מְבִינִ֥ים	conj	place
34	ָֽם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 עָמְד	nmod:poss	their
35	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	34 ָֽם	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)
מְבִינִים [were] causing to understand	participle active · hiphil	עָם people			יֵשׁוּעַ Jeshua + בָנִי Bani + שֵׁרֵבְיָה Sherebiah + יָמִין Jamin + עַקּוּב Akkub + שַׁבְּתַי Shabbethai + הֽוֹדִיָּה Hodiah + מַעֲשֵׂיָה Maaseiah + קְלִיטָא Kelita + עֲזַרְיָה Azariah + יוֹזָבָד Jozabad + חָנָן Hanan + פְּלָאיָה Pelaiah + 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.

Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, even the Levites, caused the people to understand the Law; and the people stood in their place.

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:202.

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