--- title: Nehemiah 5:2 — For there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many;… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: For there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many; let us get for them corn, that we may eat and live.' Who acts: that, We, us. Nehemiah 5:2 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.5.2/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/5/) / 5:2 # Nehemiah 5:2 נְחֶמְיָה **Who acts:** that, We, us · **What happens:** be, say, let, get, eat, live · **To what, where:** us, corn · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Nehemiah 5:2 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 — that, We, us — and what happens in the verse to us, corn, 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. וְיֵשׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֹמְרִ֔ים בָּנֵ֥ינוּ וּבְנֹתֵ֖ינוּ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ רַבִּ֑ים וְנִקְחָ֥ה דָגָ֖ן וְנֹאכְלָ֥ה וְנִחְיֶֽה׃ [For there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many; let us get for them corn, that we may eat and live.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.102/) ## 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:87 # text = וְיֵשׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֹמְרִ֔ים בָּנֵ֥ינוּ וּבְנֹתֵ֖ינוּ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ רַבִּ֑ים וְנִקְחָ֥ה דָגָ֖ן וְנֹאכְלָ֥ה וְנִחְיֶֽה׃ # verse = NEH.5.2 1-2 וְיֵשׁ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_5:2!1|MId=o160050020011|Strong=2050b 2 יֵשׁ֙ יֵשׁ ADV _ _ 0 root _ Gloss=there.[were]|Ref=NEH_5:2!1|MId=o160050020012|Strong=3426|Type=demonstrative 3 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 4 mark _ Gloss=[those].who|Ref=NEH_5:2!2|MId=o160050020021|Strong=0834|Type=relative 4 אֹמְרִ֔ים אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 2 acl:relcl _ Gloss=[were].saying|Ref=NEH_5:2!3|MId=o160050020031|Strong=0559|Frame=A1:160050020071;160050020082;160050020102;160050020112;|Type=participle_active 5-6 בָּנֵ֥ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 בָּנֵ֥י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 4 ccomp _ Gloss=sons|Ref=NEH_5:2!4|MId=o160050020041|Strong=1121 6 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=NEH_5:2!4|MId=o160050020042|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 7-9 וּבְנֹתֵ֖ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_5:2!5|MId=o160050020051|Strong=2050b 8 בְנֹתֵ֖י בַּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 5 conj _ Gloss=daughters|Ref=NEH_5:2!5|MId=o160050020052|Strong=1323 9 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=NEH_5:2!5|MId=o160050020053|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 10 אֲנַ֣חְנוּ אֲנַחְנוּ PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ Gloss=we|Ref=NEH_5:2!6|MId=o160050020061|Strong=0587|Type=personal 11 רַבִּ֑ים רַב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ Gloss=[are].many|Ref=NEH_5:2!7|MId=o160050020071|Strong=7227|Type=adjective 12-13 וְנִקְחָ֥ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_5:2!8|MId=o160050020081|Strong=2050b 13 נִקְחָ֥ה לָקַח VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 5 conj _ Gloss=let.us.get|Ref=NEH_5:2!8|MId=o160050020082|Strong=3947|Frame=A0:160050020031;160050020041;160050020052;A1:160050020091;|Type=cohortative 14 דָגָ֖ן דָּגָן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obj _ Gloss=grain|Ref=NEH_5:2!9|MId=o160050020091|Strong=1715 15-16 וְנֹאכְלָ֥ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=so|Ref=NEH_5:2!10|MId=o160050020101|Strong=2050b 16 נֹאכְלָ֥ה אָכַל VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 5 conj _ Gloss=that.we.may.eat|Ref=NEH_5:2!10|MId=o160050020102|Strong=0398|Frame=A0:160050020031;160050020041;160050020052;A1:160050020091;|Type=cohortative 17-18 וְנִחְיֶֽה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_5:2!11|MId=o160050020111|Strong=2050b 18 נִחְיֶֽה חָיָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 5 conj _ Gloss=so.that.we.may.live|Ref=NEH_5:2!11|MId=o160050020112|Strong=2421|Frame=A0:160050020031;160050020041;160050020052;|Type=yiqtol 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=NEH_5:2!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אֹמְרִים *\[were\] saying* | participle active · qal | | רַבִּים *\[are\] many* + נִקְחָה *let us get* + נֹאכְלָה *that we may eat* + נִחְיֶֽה *so that we may live* | | | | נִקְחָה *let us get* | cohortative · qal | אֹמְרִים *\[were\] saying* + בָּנֵי *sons* + בְנֹתֵי *daughters* | דָגָן *grain* | | | | נֹאכְלָה *that we may eat* | cohortative · qal | אֹמְרִים *\[were\] saying* + בָּנֵי *sons* + בְנֹתֵי *daughters* | דָגָן *grain* | | | | נִחְיֶֽה *so that we may live* | yiqtol · qal | אֹמְרִים *\[were\] saying* + בָּנֵי *sons* + בְנֹתֵי *daughters* | | | | 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. [For there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many; let us get for them corn, that we may eat and live.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.102/) **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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