--- title: Nehemiah 5:3 — Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and o… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us get corn, because of the dearth.' Who acts: Some, We, us. Nehemiah 5:3 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.5.3/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/5/) / 5:3 # Nehemiah 5:3 נְחֶמְיָה **Who acts:** Some, We, us · **What happens:** be, say, mortgage, let, get · **To what, where:** fields, us, corn · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Nehemiah 5:3 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 — Some, We, us — and what happens in the verse to fields, 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 שְׂדֹתֵ֛ינוּ וּכְרָמֵ֥ינוּ וּבָתֵּ֖ינוּ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ עֹרְבִ֑ים וְנִקְחָ֥ה דָגָ֖ן בָּרָעָֽב׃ [Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us get corn, because of the dearth.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.103/) ## 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:88 # text = וְיֵשׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֹמְרִ֔ים שְׂדֹתֵ֛ינוּ וּכְרָמֵ֥ינוּ וּבָתֵּ֖ינוּ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ עֹרְבִ֑ים וְנִקְחָ֥ה דָגָ֖ן בָּרָעָֽב׃ # verse = NEH.5.3 1-2 וְיֵשׁ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_5:3!1|MId=o160050030011|Strong=2050b 2 יֵשׁ֙ יֵשׁ ADV _ _ 0 root _ Gloss=there.[were]|Ref=NEH_5:3!1|MId=o160050030012|Strong=3426|Type=demonstrative 3 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 4 mark _ Gloss=[those].who|Ref=NEH_5:3!2|MId=o160050030021|Strong=0834|Type=relative 4 אֹמְרִ֔ים אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 2 acl:relcl _ Gloss=[were].saying|Ref=NEH_5:3!3|MId=o160050030031|Strong=0559|Frame=A1:160050030081;160050030092;|Type=participle_active 5-6 שְׂדֹתֵ֛ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 שְׂדֹתֵ֛י שָׂדֶה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 14 obj _ Gloss=fields|Ref=NEH_5:3!4|MId=o160050030041|Strong=7704 6 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=NEH_5:3!4|MId=o160050030042|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 7-9 וּכְרָמֵ֥ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_5:3!5|MId=o160050030051|Strong=2050b 8 כְרָמֵ֥י כֶּרֶם NOUN _ Number=Plur 5 conj _ Gloss=vineyards|Ref=NEH_5:3!5|MId=o160050030052|Strong=3754 9 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=NEH_5:3!5|MId=o160050030053|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 10-12 וּבָתֵּ֖ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_5:3!6|MId=o160050030061|Strong=2050b 11 בָתֵּ֖י בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 5 conj _ Gloss=houses|Ref=NEH_5:3!6|MId=o160050030062|Strong=1004 12 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=NEH_5:3!6|MId=o160050030063|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 13 אֲנַ֣חְנוּ אֲנַחְנוּ PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ Gloss=we|Ref=NEH_5:3!7|MId=o160050030071|Strong=0587|Type=personal 14 עֹרְבִ֑ים עָרַב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 4 ccomp _ Gloss=[are].mortgaging|Ref=NEH_5:3!8|MId=o160050030081|Strong=6148|Frame=A1:160050030041;160050030052;160050030062;A0:160050030071;|Type=participle_active 15-16 וְנִקְחָ֥ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_5:3!9|MId=o160050030091|Strong=2050b 16 נִקְחָ֥ה לָקַח VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 14 conj _ Gloss=we.will.get|Ref=NEH_5:3!9|MId=o160050030092|Strong=3947|Frame=A0:160050030031;A1:160050030101;|Type=cohortative 17 דָגָ֖ן דָּגָן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 obj _ Gloss=grain|Ref=NEH_5:3!10|MId=o160050030101|Strong=1715 18-20 בָּרָעָֽב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 בָּ בְּ ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=NEH_5:3!11|MId=o160050030111|Strong=0871a 19 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 20 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_5:3!11|MId=o160050030111ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 20 רָעָֽב רָעָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=famine|Ref=NEH_5:3!11|MId=o160050030112|Strong=7458 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=NEH_5:3!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 | | עֹרְבִים *\[are\] mortgaging* + נִקְחָה *we will get* | | | | עֹרְבִים *\[are\] mortgaging* | participle active · qal | אֲנַחְנוּ *we* | שְׂדֹתֵי *fields* + כְרָמֵי *vineyards* + בָתֵּי *houses* | | | | נִקְחָה *we will get* | cohortative · qal | אֹמְרִים *\[were\] saying* | דָגָן *grain* | | | 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. [Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us get corn, because of the dearth.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.103/) **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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