--- title: Nehemiah 9:12 — Moreover in a pillar of cloud Thou didst lead them by day; and in a… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Moreover in a pillar of cloud Thou didst lead them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way wherein they should go. Who acts: Thou, pursuers. 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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 — Thou, pursuers — and what happens in the verse to pursuers, pillar, light, way, 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. וּבְעַמּ֣וּד עָנָ֔ן הִנְחִיתָ֖ם יוֹמָ֑ם וּבְעַמּ֥וּד אֵשׁ֙ לַ֔יְלָה לְהָאִ֣יר לָהֶ֔ם אֶת־הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֵֽלְכוּ־בָֽהּ׃ [Moreover in a pillar of cloud Thou didst lead them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.253/) ## 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:225 # text = וּבְעַמּ֣וּד עָנָ֔ן הִנְחִיתָ֖ם יוֹמָ֑ם וּבְעַמּ֥וּד אֵשׁ֙ לַ֔יְלָה לְהָאִ֣יר לָהֶ֔ם אֶת־הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֵֽלְכוּ־בָֽהּ׃ # verse = NEH.9.12 1-3 וּבְעַמּ֣וּד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 5 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_9:12!1|MId=o160090120011|Strong=2050b 2 בְ בְּ ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=NEH_9:12!1|MId=o160090120012|Strong=0871a 3 עַמּ֣וּד עַמּוּד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 obl _ Gloss=a.pillar|Ref=NEH_9:12!1|MId=o160090120013|Strong=5982 4 עָנָ֔ן עָנָן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.cloud|Ref=NEH_9:12!2|MId=o160090120021|Strong=6051 5-6 הִנְחִיתָ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 הִנְחִיתָ֖ נָחָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=you|Ref=NEH_9:12!3|MId=o160090120031|Strong=5148|Frame=AA:160090070031;A0:160090120032;|Type=qatal 6 ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ Gloss=led.them|Ref=NEH_9:12!3|MId=o160090120032|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 7 יוֹמָ֑ם יוֹמָם ADV _ _ 5 advmod _ Gloss=by.day|Ref=NEH_9:12!4|MId=o160090120041|Strong=3119 8-10 וּבְעַמּ֥וּד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_9:12!5|MId=o160090120051|Strong=2050b 9 בְ בְּ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=NEH_9:12!5|MId=o160090120052|Strong=0871a 10 עַמּ֥וּד עַמּוּד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 conj _ Gloss=a.pillar|Ref=NEH_9:12!5|MId=o160090120053|Strong=5982 11 אֵשׁ֙ אֵשׁ NOUN _ Number=Sing 10 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.fire|Ref=NEH_9:12!6|MId=o160090120061|Strong=0784 12 לַ֔יְלָה לַיְלָה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 obl _ Gloss=night|Ref=NEH_9:12!7|MId=o160090120071|Strong=3915 13-14 לְהָאִ֣יר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NEH_9:12!8|MId=o160090120081|Strong=3807a 14 הָאִ֣יר אוֹר VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 10 advcl _ Gloss=light.up|Ref=NEH_9:12!8|MId=o160090120082|Strong=0215|Frame=AA:160090070031;A0:160090120112;|Type=infinitive_construct 15-16 לָהֶ֔ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 ל לְ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=NEH_9:12!9|MId=o160090120091|Strong=3807a 16 ָהֶ֔ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ Gloss=them|Ref=NEH_9:12!9|MId=o160090120092|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 17 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NEH_9:12!10|MId=o160090120101|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 18-19 הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 19 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_9:12!11|MId=o160090120111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 19 דֶּ֖רֶךְ דֶּרֶךְ NOUN _ Number=Sing 14 obj _ Gloss=way|Ref=NEH_9:12!11|MId=o160090120112|Strong=1870 20 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 21 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=NEH_9:12!12|MId=o160090120121|Strong=0834|Type=relative 21 יֵֽלְכוּ־ הלך VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 19 acl:relcl _ Gloss=they.walked|Ref=NEH_9:12!13|MId=o160090120131|Strong=1980|Frame=A0:160090090041;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 22-23 בָֽהּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 ב בְּ ADP _ _ 23 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=NEH_9:12!14|MId=o160090120141|Strong=0871a 23 ָֽהּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ Gloss=it|Ref=NEH_9:12!14|MId=o160090120142|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 24 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=NEH_9:12!14 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | הִנְחִיתָ *you* | qatal · hiphil | ם *led them* | | | | | הָאִיר *light up* | infinitive construct · hiphil | דֶּרֶךְ *way* | | | | | יֵֽלְכוּ־ *they walked* | 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. [Moreover in a pillar of cloud Thou didst lead them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.253/) **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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