--- title: Nehemiah 3:38 — So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof; for the people had a mind to work. Who acts: we, people. Nehemiah 3:38 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Nehemiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/) / [chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/3/) / 3:38 # Nehemiah 3:38 נְחֶמְיָה **Who acts:** we, people · **What happens:** build, join, have, work · **To what, where:** wall, mind This is Nehemiah 3:38 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 — we, people — and what happens in the verse to wall, mind, 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. וַנִּבְנֶה֙ אֶת־הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה וַתִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר כָּל־הַחוֹמָ֖ה עַד־חֶצְיָ֑הּ וַיְהִ֧י לֵ֦ב לָעָ֖ם לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃פ [So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof; for the people had a mind to work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.82/) ## 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:68 # text = וַנִּבְנֶה֙ אֶת־הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה וַתִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר כָּל־הַחוֹמָ֖ה עַד־חֶצְיָ֑הּ וַיְהִ֧י לֵ֦ב לָעָ֖ם לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃פ # verse = NEH.3.38 1-2 וַנִּבְנֶה֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_3:38!1|MId=o160030380011|Strong=2050b 2 נִּבְנֶה֙ בָּנָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 0 root _ Gloss=we.rebuilt|Ref=NEH_3:38!1|MId=o160030380012|Strong=1129|Frame=A0:160010010021;160020160094;160020160104;160020160114;160020160124;160020160133;A1:160030380032;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NEH_3:38!2|MId=o160030380021|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 4-5 הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 הַ֣ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 5 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_3:38!3|MId=o160030380031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 5 חוֹמָ֔ה חוֹמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=wall|Ref=NEH_3:38!3|MId=o160030380032|Strong=2346 6-7 וַתִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_3:38!4|MId=o160030380041|Strong=2050b 7 תִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר קָשַׁר VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=it.was.joined.together|Ref=NEH_3:38!4|MId=o160030380042|Strong=7194|Frame=A1:160030380062;|Type=wayyiqtol 8 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Gloss=all|Ref=NEH_3:38!5|MId=o160030380051|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 9-10 הַחוֹמָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 10 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_3:38!6|MId=o160030380061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 10 חוֹמָ֖ה חוֹמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=wall|Ref=NEH_3:38!6|MId=o160030380062|Strong=2346 11 עַד־ עַד ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NEH_3:38!7|MId=o160030380071|Strong=5704|SpaceAfter=No 12-13 חֶצְיָ֑הּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 חֶצְי חֲצִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obl _ Gloss=middle|Ref=NEH_3:38!8|MId=o160030380081|Strong=2677 13 ָ֑הּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=its|Ref=NEH_3:38!8|MId=o160030380082|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 14-15 וַיְהִ֧י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_3:38!9|MId=o160030380091|Strong=2050b 15 יְהִ֧י הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=it.belonged|Ref=NEH_3:38!9|MId=o160030380092|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:160030380101;|Type=wayyiqtol 16 לֵ֦ב לֵב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Gloss=a.heart|Ref=NEH_3:38!10|MId=o160030380101|Strong=3820 17-19 לָעָ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NEH_3:38!11|MId=o160030380111|Strong=3807a 18 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 19 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_3:38!11|MId=o160030380111ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 19 עָ֖ם עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 nmod _ Gloss=people|Ref=NEH_3:38!11|MId=o160030380112|Strong=5971 20-21 לַעֲשֽׂוֹת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NEH_3:38!12|MId=o160030380121|Strong=3807a 21 עֲשֽׂוֹת עָשָׂה VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 15 advcl _ Gloss=work|Ref=NEH_3:38!12|MId=o160030380122|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:160030380113;|Type=infinitive_construct 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=NEH_3:38!12|SpaceAfter=No 23 פ פ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=NEH_3:38!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | נִּבְנֶה *we rebuilt* | wayyiqtol · qal | | חוֹמָה *wall* | | | | תִּקָּשֵׁר *it was joined together* | wayyiqtol · niphal | | חוֹמָה *wall* | | | | יְהִי *it belonged* | wayyiqtol · qal | לֵב *a heart* | | | | | עֲשֽׂוֹת *work* | infinitive construct · 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 {#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. [So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof; for the people had a mind to work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.82/) **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). Hebrew sentence `wlc:NEH:68`. - ← previous: [Nehemiah 3:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.37/) - next →: [Nehemiah 4:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.4.1/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/3/)