Nehemiah 9:12 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: Thou, pursuers · What happens: lead, give, go · To what, where: pursuers, pillar, light, way

This is Nehemiah 9:12 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 — Thou, pursuers — and what happens in the verse to pursuers, pillar, light, way, 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.

וּבְעַמּ֣וּד עָנָ֔ן הִנְחִיתָ֖ם יוֹמָ֑ם וּבְעַמּ֥וּד אֵשׁ֙ לַ֔יְלָה לְהָאִ֣יר לָהֶ֔ם אֶת־הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֵֽלְכוּ־בָֽהּ׃

Moreover in a pillar of cloud Thou didst lead them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

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	_	5 הִנְחִיתָ֖	cc	and
2	בְ	בְּ	ADP	_	3 עַמּ֣וּד	case	in
3	עַמּ֣וּד	עַמּוּד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	5 הִנְחִיתָ֖	obl	a pillar
4	עָנָ֔ן	עָנָן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	3 עַמּ֣וּד	compound:smixut	of cloud
5	הִנְחִיתָ֖	נָחָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=2	root	root	you
6	ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 הִנְחִיתָ֖	obj	led them
7	יוֹמָ֑ם	יוֹמָם	ADV	_	5 הִנְחִיתָ֖	advmod	by day
8	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	10 עַמּ֥וּד	cc	and
9	בְ	בְּ	ADP	_	10 עַמּ֥וּד	case	in
10	עַמּ֥וּד	עַמּוּד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	5 הִנְחִיתָ֖	conj	a pillar
11	אֵשׁ֙	אֵשׁ	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 עַמּ֥וּד	compound:smixut	of fire
12	לַ֔יְלָה	לַיְלָה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	10 עַמּ֥וּד	obl	night
13	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	14 הָאִ֣יר	case	to
14	הָאִ֣יר	אוֹר	VERB	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	10 עַמּ֥וּד	advcl	light up
15	ל	לְ	ADP	_	16 ָהֶ֔ם	case	for
16	ָהֶ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 הָאִ֣יר	obl	them
17	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	19 דֶּ֖רֶךְ	case	(et)
18	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	19 דֶּ֖רֶךְ	det	the
19	דֶּ֖רֶךְ	דֶּרֶךְ	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 הָאִ֣יר	obj	way
20	אֲשֶׁ֥ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	21 יֵֽלְכוּ־	mark	which
21	יֵֽלְכוּ־	הלך	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	19 דֶּ֖רֶךְ	acl:relcl	they walked
22	ב	בְּ	ADP	_	23 ָֽהּ	case	in
23	ָֽהּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 יֵֽלְכוּ־	obl	it
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	23 ָֽהּ	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)
הִנְחִיתָ you	qatal · hiphil	ם led them
הָאִיר light up	infinitive construct · hiphil	דֶּרֶךְ way
יֵֽלְכוּ־ they walked	yiqtol · 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.

Moreover in a pillar of cloud Thou didst lead them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

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:225.

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