--- title: Nehemiah 11:17 — and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, w… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. Who acts: son. 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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 — son — and what happens in the verse to chief, thanksgiving, prayer, 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. וּמַתַּנְיָ֣ה בֶן־מִ֠יכָה בֶּן־זַבְדִּ֨י בֶן־אָסָ֜ף רֹ֗אשׁ הַתְּחִלָּה֙ יְהוֹדֶ֣ה לַתְּפִלָּ֔ה וּבַקְבֻּקְיָ֖ה מִשְׁנֶ֣ה מֵאֶחָ֑יו וְעַבְדָּא֙ בֶּן־שַׁמּ֔וּעַ בֶּן־גָּלָ֖ל בֶּן־יְדוּתֽוּן׃ [and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.337/) ## The tree {#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. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:NEH:307 # text = וּמַתַּנְיָ֣ה בֶן־מִ֠יכָה בֶּן־זַבְדִּ֨י בֶן־אָסָ֜ף רֹ֗אשׁ הַתְּחִלָּה֙ יְהוֹדֶ֣ה לַתְּפִלָּ֔ה וּבַקְבֻּקְיָ֖ה מִשְׁנֶ֣ה מֵאֶחָ֑יו וְעַבְדָּא֙ בֶּן־שַׁמּ֔וּעַ בֶּן־גָּלָ֖ל בֶּן־יְדוּתֽוּן׃ # verse = NEH.11.17 1-2 וּמַתַּנְיָ֣ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_11:17!1|MId=o160110170011|Strong=2050b 2 מַתַּנְיָ֣ה מַתַּנְיָה PROPN _ _ 9 nsubj _ Gloss=Mattaniah|Ref=NEH_11:17!1|MId=o160110170012|Strong=4983 3 בֶן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=NEH_11:17!2|MId=o160110170021|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 4 מִ֠יכָה מִיכָה PROPN _ _ 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Micah|Ref=NEH_11:17!3|MId=o160110170031|Strong=4318 5 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=NEH_11:17!4|MId=o160110170041|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 6 זַבְדִּ֨י זַבְדִּי PROPN _ _ 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Zabdi|Ref=NEH_11:17!5|MId=o160110170051|Strong=2067 7 בֶן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=NEH_11:17!6|MId=o160110170061|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 8 אָסָ֜ף אָסָף PROPN _ _ 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Asaph|Ref=NEH_11:17!7|MId=o160110170071|Strong=0623 9 רֹ֗אשׁ רֹאשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=the.leader|Ref=NEH_11:17!8|MId=o160110170081|Strong=7218 10-11 הַתְּחִלָּה֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 11 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=NEH_11:17!9|MId=o160110170091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 11 תְּחִלָּה֙ תְּחִלָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.beginning|Ref=NEH_11:17!9|MId=o160110170092|Strong=8462 12 יְהוֹדֶ֣ה יָדָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 9 parataxis _ Gloss=he.gave.thanks|Ref=NEH_11:17!10|MId=o160110170101|Strong=3034|Frame=A0:160110170012;|Type=yiqtol 13-15 לַתְּפִלָּ֔ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NEH_11:17!11|MId=o160110170111|Strong=3807a 14 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 15 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_11:17!11|MId=o160110170111ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 15 תְּפִלָּ֔ה תְּפִלָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 obl _ Gloss=prayer|Ref=NEH_11:17!11|MId=o160110170112|Strong=8605 16-17 וּבַקְבֻּקְיָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_11:17!12|MId=o160110170121|Strong=2050b 17 בַקְבֻּקְיָ֖ה בַּקְבֻּקְיָה PROPN _ _ 18 nsubj _ Gloss=Bakbukiah|Ref=NEH_11:17!12|MId=o160110170122|Strong=1229 18 מִשְׁנֶ֣ה מִשְׁנֶה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 conj _ Gloss=[the].second|Ref=NEH_11:17!13|MId=o160110170131|Strong=4932 19-21 מֵאֶחָ֑יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=of|Ref=NEH_11:17!14|MId=o160110170141|Strong=4480 20 אֶחָ֑י אָח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 18 obl _ Gloss=brothers|Ref=NEH_11:17!14|MId=o160110170142|Strong=0251 21 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=NEH_11:17!14|MId=o160110170143|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 22-23 וְעַבְדָּא֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 23 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_11:17!15|MId=o160110170151|Strong=2050b 23 עַבְדָּא֙ עַבְדָּא PROPN _ _ 9 conj _ Gloss=Abda|Ref=NEH_11:17!15|MId=o160110170152|Strong=5653 24 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 23 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=NEH_11:17!16|MId=o160110170161|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 25 שַׁמּ֔וּעַ שַׁמּוּעַ PROPN _ _ 24 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Shammua|Ref=NEH_11:17!17|MId=o160110170171|Strong=8051 26 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 25 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=NEH_11:17!18|MId=o160110170181|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 27 גָּלָ֖ל גָּלָל PROPN _ _ 26 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Galal|Ref=NEH_11:17!19|MId=o160110170191|Strong=1559 28 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 27 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=NEH_11:17!20|MId=o160110170201|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 29 יְדוּתֽוּן יְדוּתוּן PROPN _ _ 28 compound:smixut _ Gloss=Jeduthun|Ref=NEH_11:17!22|MId=o160110170221|Strong=3038|SpaceAfter=No 30 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 29 punct _ Ref=NEH_11:17!22 ``` ## Pragmatics {#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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יְהוֹדֶה *he gave thanks* | yiqtol · hiphil | מַתַּנְיָה *Mattaniah* | | | | 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 {#english} 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. 1. [and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.337/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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). 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