--- title: Nehemiah 5:9 — Also I said: 'The thing that ye do is not good; ought ye not to walk… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Also I said: 'The thing that ye do is not good; ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies? Who acts: I, ye, thing. Nehemiah 5:9 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.5.9/) [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/) / 5:9 # Nehemiah 5:9 נְחֶמְיָה **Who acts:** I, ye, thing · **What happens:** say, do, not be, not walk, fear · **To what, where:** thing, fear, God · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Nehemiah 5:9 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 — I, ye, thing — and what happens in the verse to thing, fear, God, 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. וָאוֹמַ֕רלֹא־ט֥וֹב הַדָּבָ֖ר אֲשֶׁר־אַתֶּ֣ם עֹשִׂ֑ים הֲל֞וֹא בְּיִרְאַ֤ת אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ תֵּלֵ֔כוּ מֵחֶרְפַּ֖ת הַגּוֹיִ֥ם אוֹיְבֵֽינוּ׃ [Also I said: 'The thing that ye do is not good; ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.109/) ## 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:94 # text = וָאוֹמַ֕רלֹא־ט֥וֹב הַדָּבָ֖ר אֲשֶׁר־אַתֶּ֣ם עֹשִׂ֑ים הֲל֞וֹא בְּיִרְאַ֤ת אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ תֵּלֵ֔כוּ מֵחֶרְפַּ֖ת הַגּוֹיִ֥ם אוֹיְבֵֽינוּ׃ # verse = NEH.5.9 1-3 וָאוֹמַ֕רלֹא־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_5:9!2|MId=o160050090021|Strong=2050b 2 אוֹמַ֕ר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 0 root _ Gloss=I.said|Ref=NEH_5:9!2|MId=o160050090022|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:160010010021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 לֹא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 4 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=NEH_5:9!3|MId=o160050090031|Strong=3808|Type=negative 4 ט֥וֹב טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ Gloss=[is].good|Ref=NEH_5:9!4|MId=o160050090041|Strong=2896|Type=adjective 5-6 הַדָּבָ֖ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 6 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_5:9!5|MId=o160050090051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 6 דָּבָ֖ר דָּבָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Gloss=thing|Ref=NEH_5:9!5|MId=o160050090052|Strong=1697 7 אֲשֶׁר־ אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 9 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=NEH_5:9!6|MId=o160050090061|Strong=0834|Type=relative|SpaceAfter=No 8 אַתֶּ֣ם אַתֶּם PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ Gloss=you|Ref=NEH_5:9!7|MId=o160050090071|Strong=0859a|Type=personal 9 עֹשִׂ֑ים עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 6 acl:relcl _ Gloss=[are].doing|Ref=NEH_5:9!8|MId=o160050090081|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:160050090071;A1:160050090052;|Type=participle_active 10-11 הֲל֞וֹא _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הֲ הֲ PART _ _ 16 advmod _ Gloss=?|Ref=NEH_5:9!9|MId=o160050090091|Strong=1886b|Type=interrogative 11 ל֞וֹא לֹא ADV _ _ 16 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=NEH_5:9!9|MId=o160050090092|Strong=3808|Type=negative 12-13 בְּיִרְאַ֤ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=NEH_5:9!10|MId=o160050090101|Strong=0871a 13 יִרְאַ֤ת יִרְאָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=the.fear|Ref=NEH_5:9!10|MId=o160050090102|Strong=3374 14-15 אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 אֱלֹהֵ֙י אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=our.God|Ref=NEH_5:9!11|MId=o160050090111|Strong=0430 15 נוּ֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=NEH_5:9!11|MId=o160050090112|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 16 תֵּלֵ֔כוּ הלך VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=2 4 parataxis _ Gloss=are.you.walking|Ref=NEH_5:9!12|MId=o160050090121|Strong=1980|Frame=A0:160050070062;160050070082;|Type=yiqtol 17-18 מֵחֶרְפַּ֖ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=NEH_5:9!13|MId=o160050090131|Strong=4480 18 חֶרְפַּ֖ת חֶרְפָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=the.reproach|Ref=NEH_5:9!13|MId=o160050090132|Strong=2781 19-20 הַגּוֹיִ֥ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 20 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=NEH_5:9!14|MId=o160050090141|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 20 גּוֹיִ֥ם גּוֹי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.nations|Ref=NEH_5:9!14|MId=o160050090142|Strong=1471 21-22 אוֹיְבֵֽינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 אוֹיְבֵֽי אָיַב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 20 appos _ Gloss=enemies|Ref=NEH_5:9!15|MId=o160050090151|Strong=0341|Type=participle_active 22 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=NEH_5:9!15|MId=o160050090152|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=NEH_5:9!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: yes - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אוֹמַר *I said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | עֹשִׂים *\[are\] doing* | participle active · qal | אַתֶּם *you* | דָּבָר *thing* | | | | **not** תֵּלֵכוּ *are you walking* | yiqtol · 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. [Also I said: 'The thing that ye do is not good; ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.109/) **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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