--- title: Nehemiah 4:3 — But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them da… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. Who acts: we, our. Nehemiah 4:3 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.4.3/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/4/) / 4:3 # Nehemiah 4:3 נְחֶמְיָה **Who acts:** we, our · **What happens:** make, set, pray · **To what, where:** prayer, watch This is Nehemiah 4:3 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 — we, our — and what happens in the verse to prayer, watch, 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. וַנִּתְפַּלֵּ֖ל אֶל־אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ וַנַּעֲמִ֨יד מִשְׁמָ֧ר עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם יוֹמָ֥ם וָלַ֖יְלָה מִפְּנֵיהֶֽם׃ [But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.85/) ## 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:71 # text = וַנִּתְפַּלֵּ֖ל אֶל־אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ וַנַּעֲמִ֨יד מִשְׁמָ֧ר עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם יוֹמָ֥ם וָלַ֖יְלָה מִפְּנֵיהֶֽם׃ # verse = NEH.4.3 1-2 וַנִּתְפַּלֵּ֖ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_4:3!1|MId=o160040030011|Strong=2050b 2 נִּתְפַּלֵּ֖ל פָּלַל VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Plur|Person=1 0 root _ Gloss=we.prayed|Ref=NEH_4:3!1|MId=o160040030012|Strong=6419|Frame=A0:160010010021;160020160094;160020160104;160020160114;160020160124;160020160133;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NEH_4:3!2|MId=o160040030021|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 4-5 אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 אֱלֹהֵ֑י אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obl _ Gloss=God|Ref=NEH_4:3!3|MId=o160040030031|Strong=0430 5 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=NEH_4:3!3|MId=o160040030032|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 6-7 וַנַּעֲמִ֨יד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_4:3!4|MId=o160040030041|Strong=2050b 7 נַּעֲמִ֨יד עָמַד VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur|Person=1 2 conj _ Gloss=we.stationed|Ref=NEH_4:3!4|MId=o160040030042|Strong=5975|Frame=AA:160010010021;160020160094;160020160104;160020160114;160020160124;160020160133;A0:160040030051;|Type=wayyiqtol 8 מִשְׁמָ֧ר מִשְׁמָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obj _ Gloss=a.guard|Ref=NEH_4:3!5|MId=o160040030051|Strong=4929 9-10 עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 עֲלֵי עַל ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=NEH_4:3!6|MId=o160040030061|Strong=5921 10 הֶ֛ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ Gloss=them|Ref=NEH_4:3!6|MId=o160040030062|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 11 יוֹמָ֥ם יוֹמָם ADV _ _ 7 advmod _ Gloss=by.day|Ref=NEH_4:3!7|MId=o160040030071|Strong=3119 12-13 וָלַ֖יְלָה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_4:3!8|MId=o160040030081|Strong=2050b 13 לַ֖יְלָה לַיְלָה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 conj _ Gloss=night|Ref=NEH_4:3!8|MId=o160040030082|Strong=3915 14-16 מִפְּנֵיהֶֽם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=because|Ref=NEH_4:3!9|MId=o160040030091|Strong=4480 15 פְּנֵי פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 7 obl _ Gloss=of|Ref=NEH_4:3!9|MId=o160040030092|Strong=6440 16 הֶֽם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ Gloss=them|Ref=NEH_4:3!9|MId=o160040030093|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 17 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 16 punct _ Ref=NEH_4:3!9 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: speech with no frame - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | נִּתְפַּלֵּל *we prayed* | wayyiqtol · hithpael | | | | | | נַּעֲמִיד *we stationed* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | מִשְׁמָר *a guard* | | | | 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. [But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.85/) **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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