Esther 2:16 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: tenth month · What happens: take, be · To what, where: Esther, house, month

This is Esther 2:16 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 — tenth month — and what happens in the verse to Esther, house, month, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum 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 10 chapters of Esther on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַתִּלָּקַ֨ח אֶסְתֵּ֜ר אֶל־הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית מַלְכוּת֔וֹ בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁ הָעֲשִׂירִ֖י הוּא־חֹ֣דֶשׁ טֵבֵ֑ת בִּשְׁנַת־שֶׁ֖בַע לְמַלְכוּתֽוֹ׃

So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

The 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.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 תִּלָּקַ֨ח	cc	and
2	תִּלָּקַ֨ח	לָקַח	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	she was taken
3	אֶסְתֵּ֜ר	אֶסְתֵּר	PROPN	_	2 תִּלָּקַ֨ח	nsubj	Esther
4	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	6 מֶּ֤לֶךְ	case	to
5	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	6 מֶּ֤לֶךְ	det	the
6	מֶּ֤לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 תִּלָּקַ֨ח	obl	king
7	אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ֙	אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ	PROPN	_	6 מֶּ֤לֶךְ	appos	Ahasuerus
8	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	9 בֵּ֣ית	case	into
9	בֵּ֣ית	בַּיִת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 תִּלָּקַ֨ח	obl	the house
10	מַלְכוּת	מַלְכוּת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	9 בֵּ֣ית	compound:smixut	his royalty
11	֔וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 מַלְכוּת	nmod:poss	his
12	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	14 חֹ֥דֶשׁ	case	in
13	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	14 חֹ֥דֶשׁ	det	the
14	חֹ֥דֶשׁ	חֹדֶשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 תִּלָּקַ֨ח	obl	month
15	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	16 עֲשִׂירִ֖י	det	(the)
16	עֲשִׂירִ֖י	עֲשִׂירִי	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 חֹ֥דֶשׁ	nummod	tenth
17	הוּא־	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 חֹ֣דֶשׁ	nsubj	that
18	חֹ֣דֶשׁ	חֹדֶשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 חֹ֥דֶשׁ	acl	[is] the month
19	טֵבֵ֑ת	טֵבֶת	PROPN	_	18 חֹ֣דֶשׁ	compound:smixut	of Tebeth
20	בִּ	בְּ	ADP	_	21 שְׁנַת־	case	in
21	שְׁנַת־	שָׁנָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	14 חֹ֥דֶשׁ	conj	year
22	שֶׁ֖בַע	שֶׁבַע	NUM	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	21 שְׁנַת־	nummod	seven
23	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	24 מַלְכוּת	case	of
24	מַלְכוּת	מַלְכוּת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	21 שְׁנַת־	nmod	reign
25	ֽוֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 מַלְכוּת	nmod:poss	his
26	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	25 ֽוֹ	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
תִּלָּקַח she was taken	wayyiqtol · niphal		אֶסְתֵּר Esther

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.

The Targum

וְאִדְבָּרַת אֶסְתֵּר לְוַת מַלְכָּא אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ לְאִתְּתָא וְאָעֵל יָתָהּ לְבֵית אִדְרוֹן בֵּית מַלְכוּתֵיהּ בְּיַרְחָא עֲשִׂירָאָה הוּא יַרְחָא דְטֵבֵת בְּשַׁתָּא שְׁבִיעֲתָא לְמַלְכוּתֵיהּ:

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

English, JPS 1917

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.

So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC 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:EST:37.

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