Nehemiah 8:8 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: people · What happens: read, give, cause, understand · To what, where: book, sense, people, reading

This is Nehemiah 8:8 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 book, sense, people, reading, 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.

וַֽיִּקְרְא֥וּ בַסֵּ֛פֶר בְּתוֹרַ֥ת הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים מְפֹרָ֑שׁ וְשׂ֣וֹם שֶׂ֔כֶל וַיָּבִ֖ינוּ בַּמִּקְרָֽא׃ס

And they read in the book, in the Law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

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	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יִּקְרְא֥וּ	cc	and
2	יִּקְרְא֥וּ	קָרָא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they read aloud
3	בַ	בְּ	ADP	_	5 סֵּ֛פֶר	case	in
4	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	5 סֵּ֛פֶר	det	the
5	סֵּ֛פֶר	סֵפֶר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יִּקְרְא֥וּ	obl	scroll
6	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	7 תוֹרַ֥ת	case	in
7	תוֹרַ֥ת	תּוֹרָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	5 סֵּ֛פֶר	nmod	the law
8	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	9 אֱלֹהִ֖ים	det	of (the)
9	אֱלֹהִ֖ים	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	7 תוֹרַ֥ת	compound:smixut	God
10	מְפֹרָ֑שׁ	פָּרַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PUAL Number=Sing	2 יִּקְרְא֥וּ	obl:npmod	making clear
11	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 שׂ֣וֹם	cc	and
12	שׂ֣וֹם	שׂים	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	2 יִּקְרְא֥וּ	conj	they gave
13	שֶׂ֔כֶל	שֵׂכֶל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	12 שׂ֣וֹם	obj	[the] sense
14	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 יָּבִ֖ינוּ	cc	and
15	יָּבִ֖ינוּ	בִּין	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יִּקְרְא֥וּ	conj	they understood
16	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	18 מִּקְרָֽא	case	(in)
17	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	18 מִּקְרָֽא	det	the
18	מִּקְרָֽא	מִקְרָא	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 יָּבִ֖ינוּ	obl	reading
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	18 מִּקְרָֽא	punct
20	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	18 מִּקְרָֽא	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	what, whom (A1)
יִּקְרְאוּ they read aloud	wayyiqtol · qal
מְפֹרָשׁ making clear	participle passive · pual
שׂוֹם they gave	infinitive absolute · qal	שֶׂכֶל [the] sense
יָּבִינוּ they understood	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 they read in the book, in the Law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

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:203.

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