Nehemiah 9:3 נְחֶמְיָה

Who acts: children · What happens: stand up, read, confess, prostrate · To what, where: place, fourth part, book, children

This is Nehemiah 9:3 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 — children — and what happens in the verse to place, fourth part, book, children, 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.

וַיָּק֙וּמוּ֙ עַל־עָמְדָ֔ם וַֽיִּקְרְא֗וּ בְּסֵ֨פֶר תּוֹרַ֧ת יְהוָ֛ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֖ם רְבִעִ֣ית הַיּ֑וֹם וּרְבִעִית֙ מִתְוַדִּ֣ים וּמִֽשְׁתַּחֲוִ֔ים לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃פ

And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the Law of the LORD their God a fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and prostrated themselves before the LORD their God.

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 יָּק֙וּמוּ֙	cc	and
2	יָּק֙וּמוּ֙	קוּם	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they stood
3	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	4 עָמְד	case	at
4	עָמְד	עֹמֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יָּק֙וּמוּ֙	obl	place
5	ָ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 עָמְד	nmod:poss	their
6	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	7 יִּקְרְא֗וּ	cc	and
7	יִּקְרְא֗וּ	קָרָא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יָּק֙וּמוּ֙	conj	they read aloud
8	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	9 סֵ֨פֶר	case	in
9	סֵ֨פֶר	סֵפֶר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 יִּקְרְא֗וּ	obl	the scroll
10	תּוֹרַ֧ת	תּוֹרָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	9 סֵ֨פֶר	compound:smixut	of the law
11	יְהוָ֛ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	10 תּוֹרַ֧ת	compound:smixut	of Yahweh
12	אֱלֹהֵי	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	11 יְהוָ֛ה	appos	God
13	הֶ֖ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 אֱלֹהֵי	nmod:poss	their
14	רְבִעִ֣ית	רְבִיעִי	NUM	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	16 יּ֑וֹם	nummod	the fourth
15	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	16 יּ֑וֹם	det	of
16	יּ֑וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 יִּקְרְא֗וּ	obl	the day
17	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	19 מִתְוַדִּ֣ים	cc	and
18	רְבִעִית֙	רְבִיעִי	NUM	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	19 מִתְוַדִּ֣ים	advmod	a fourth
19	מִתְוַדִּ֣ים	יָדָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HITHPAEL Number=Plur	2 יָּק֙וּמוּ֙	conj	[they were] confessing
20	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 מִֽשְׁתַּחֲוִ֔ים	cc	and
21	מִֽשְׁתַּחֲוִ֔ים	חוה	VERB	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	19 מִתְוַדִּ֣ים	conj	[they were] bowing down
22	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	23 יהוָ֖ה	case	to
23	יהוָ֖ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	19 מִתְוַדִּ֣ים	obl	Yahweh
24	אֱלֹהֵי	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	23 יהוָ֖ה	appos	God
25	הֶֽם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 אֱלֹהֵי	nmod:poss	their
26	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	25 הֶֽם	punct
27	פ	פ	PUNCT	_	25 הֶֽם	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)
יָּקוּמוּ they stood	wayyiqtol · qal
יִּקְרְאוּ they read aloud	wayyiqtol · qal
מִתְוַדִּים [they were] confessing	participle active · hithpael
מִֽשְׁתַּחֲוִים [they were] bowing down	participle active

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 stood up in their place, and read in the book of the Law of the LORD their God a fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and prostrated themselves before the LORD their God.

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:216.

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