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The Hebrew/Aramaic writing system entails two sets of marks: nikudim (vowel points) and te‘amim, variously called cantillation marks, accents, or trop(e)s. This resource provides documentation for a suite of resources that visualize the cantillation marks as a hierarchy, using a “binary” tree diagram and other methods to annotate the cantillation marks in the Hebrew Bible.

The Hebrew/Aramaic writing system entails two sets of marks: nikudim (vowel points) and te‘amim, variously called cantillation marks, accents, or trop(e)s. This suite of resources visualizes the cantillation marks as a hierarchy, using a “binary” tree diagram modified from diagrams described in Wu & Lowery, “From Prosodic Trees to Syntactic Trees.” It also allows searching the accents by name and the implied hierarchy. The marks are understood as either disjunctive or conjunctive. The disjunctive