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title: Nahum 2:11 — She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the kn… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and convulsion is in all loins, and the faces of them all have gathered blackness. Who acts: end, heart, knees, convulsion. Nahum 2:11 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmat
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# Nahum 2:11 נַחוּם

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**Who acts:** end, heart, knees, convulsion, faces · **What happens:** be, melt, smite, gather · **To what, where:** loins, blackness

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This is Nahum 2:11 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). 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 — end, heart, knees, convulsion, faces — and what happens in the verse to loins, blackness, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 3 chapters of Nahum on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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בּוּקָ֥ה וּמְבוּקָ֖ה וּמְבֻלָּקָ֑ה וְלֵ֨ב נָמֵ֜ס וּפִ֣ק בִּרְכַּ֗יִם וְחַלְחָלָה֙ בְּכָל־מָתְנַ֔יִם וּפְנֵ֥י כֻלָּ֖ם קִבְּצ֥וּ פָארֽוּר׃

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[She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and convulsion is in all loins, and the faces of them all have gathered blackness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.29/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:NAM:24
# text = בּוּקָ֥ה וּמְבוּקָ֖ה וּמְבֻלָּקָ֑ה וְלֵ֨ב נָמֵ֜ס וּפִ֣ק בִּרְכַּ֗יִם וְחַלְחָלָה֙ בְּכָל־מָתְנַ֔יִם וּפְנֵ֥י כֻלָּ֖ם קִבְּצ֥וּ פָארֽוּר׃
# verse = NAM.2.11
1	בּוּקָ֥ה	בּוּקָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	0	root	_	Gloss=emptiness|Ref=NAM_2:11!1|MId=o340020110011|Strong=0950
2-3	וּמְבוּקָ֖ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
2	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	3	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NAM_2:11!2|MId=o340020110021|Strong=2050b
3	מְבוּקָ֖ה	מְבוּקָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Gloss=emptiness|Ref=NAM_2:11!2|MId=o340020110022|Strong=4003
4-5	וּמְבֻלָּקָ֑ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	5	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NAM_2:11!3|MId=o340020110031|Strong=2050b
5	מְבֻלָּקָ֑ה	בָּלַק	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=PUAL|Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Gloss=devastation|Ref=NAM_2:11!3|MId=o340020110032|Strong=1110|Type=participle_passive
6-7	וְלֵ֨ב	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	8	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NAM_2:11!4|MId=o340020110041|Strong=2050b
7	לֵ֨ב	לֵב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Gloss=a.heart|Ref=NAM_2:11!4|MId=o340020110042|Strong=3820
8	נָמֵ֜ס	מָסַס	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	1	conj	_	Gloss=melting|Ref=NAM_2:11!5|MId=o340020110051|Strong=4549|Frame=A0:340020110042;|Type=qatal
9-10	וּפִ֣ק	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	10	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NAM_2:11!6|MId=o340020110061|Strong=2050b
10	פִ֣ק	פִּק	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Gloss=tottering|Ref=NAM_2:11!6|MId=o340020110062|Strong=6375
11	בִּרְכַּ֗יִם	בֶּרֶךְ	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Dual	10	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.knees|Ref=NAM_2:11!7|MId=o340020110071|Strong=1290
12-13	וְחַלְחָלָה֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	15	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NAM_2:11!8|MId=o340020110081|Strong=2050b
13	חַלְחָלָה֙	חַלְחָלָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Gloss=anguish|Ref=NAM_2:11!8|MId=o340020110082|Strong=2479
14-15	בְּכָל־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=[is].in|Ref=NAM_2:11!9|MId=o340020110091|Strong=0871a
15	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Gloss=all|Ref=NAM_2:11!9|MId=o340020110092|Strong=3605
16	מָתְנַ֔יִם	מׇתְנַיִם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Dual	15	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=loins|Ref=NAM_2:11!10|MId=o340020110101|Strong=4975
17-18	וּפְנֵ֥י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	21	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NAM_2:11!11|MId=o340020110111|Strong=2050b
18	פְנֵ֥י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	_	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.faces|Ref=NAM_2:11!11|MId=o340020110112|Strong=6440
19-20	כֻלָּ֖ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	כֻלּ	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	18	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=all.of.them|Ref=NAM_2:11!12|MId=o340020110121|Strong=3605
20	ָ֖ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=NAM_2:11!12|MId=o340020110122|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
21	קִבְּצ֥וּ	קָבַץ	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=3	1	conj	_	Gloss=they.have.gathered|Ref=NAM_2:11!13|MId=o340020110131|Strong=6908|Frame=A0:340020110112;A1:340020110141;|Type=qatal
22	פָארֽוּר	פָּארוּר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	21	obj	_	Gloss=a.glow|Ref=NAM_2:11!14|MId=o340020110141|Strong=6289|SpaceAfter=No
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	22	punct	_	Ref=NAM_2:11!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| נָמֵס *melting* | qatal · niphal | לֵב *a heart* |  |  |  |
| קִבְּצוּ *they have gathered* | qatal · piel | פְנֵי *the faces* | פָארֽוּר *a glow* |  |  |

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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.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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בְּזִיזָא וּמִתְבַּזְזָא וּפְתִיחַ תַּרְעָא לְסָנְאָה וְלֵב מְסֵי וְנִקוּשׁ רְכוּבִין וְזִיוּעַ בְּכָל חַרְצִין וְאַפֵּי כּוּלְהוֹן אִתְחַפִּיאוּ אִכְּרוּם אוֹכָמִין כְּקִידְרָא:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and convulsion is in all loins, and the faces of them all have gathered blackness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.29/)

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**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).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:NAM:24`.

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