Esther 2:17 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: king, Tebeth, Esther · What happens: love, obtain, set, make, sight · To what, where: Esther, grace, sight, royal crown, head, queen

This is Esther 2:17 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 — king, Tebeth, Esther — and what happens in the verse to Esther, grace, sight, royal crown, head, queen, 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.

וַיֶּאֱהַ֨ב הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ אֶת־אֶסְתֵּר֙ מִכָּל־הַנָּשִׁ֔ים וַתִּשָּׂא־חֵ֥ן וָחֶ֛סֶד לְפָנָ֖יו מִכָּל־הַבְּתוּלֹ֑ת וַיָּ֤שֶׂם כֶּֽתֶר־מַלְכוּת֙ בְּרֹאשָׁ֔הּ וַיַּמְלִיכֶ֖הָ תַּ֥חַת וַשְׁתִּֽי׃

And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

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 יֶּאֱהַ֨ב	cc	and
2	יֶּאֱהַ֨ב	אָהֵב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he loved
3	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	4 מֶּ֤לֶךְ	det	the
4	מֶּ֤לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יֶּאֱהַ֨ב	nsubj	king
5	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	6 אֶסְתֵּר֙	case	(et)
6	אֶסְתֵּר֙	אֶסְתֵּר	PROPN	_	2 יֶּאֱהַ֨ב	obj	Esther
7	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	8 כָּל־	case	more
8	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יֶּאֱהַ֨ב	obl	than all
9	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	10 נָּשִׁ֔ים	det	the
10	נָּשִׁ֔ים	אִשָּׁה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	8 כָּל־	compound:smixut	women
11	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 תִּשָּׂא־	cc	and
12	תִּשָּׂא־	נָשָׂא	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יֶּאֱהַ֨ב	conj	she bore
13	חֵ֥ן	חֵן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	12 תִּשָּׂא־	obj	favor
14	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 חֶ֛סֶד	cc	and
15	חֶ֛סֶד	חֶסֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 חֵ֥ן	conj	favor
16	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	17 פָנָ֖י	case	before
17	פָנָ֖י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 תִּשָּׂא־	obl
18	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 פָנָ֖י	nmod:poss	him
19	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	20 כָּל־	case	more
20	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	12 תִּשָּׂא־	obl	than all
21	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	22 בְּתוּלֹ֑ת	det	the
22	בְּתוּלֹ֑ת	בְּתוּלָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	20 כָּל־	compound:smixut	virgins
23	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	24 יָּ֤שֶׂם	cc	and
24	יָּ֤שֶׂם	שׂים	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יֶּאֱהַ֨ב	conj	he put
25	כֶּֽתֶר־	כֶּתֶר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	24 יָּ֤שֶׂם	obj	a crown
26	מַלְכוּת֙	מַלְכוּת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	25 כֶּֽתֶר־	compound:smixut	of royalty
27	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	28 רֹאשׁ	case	on
28	רֹאשׁ	רֹאשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	24 יָּ֤שֶׂם	obl	head
29	ָ֔הּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 רֹאשׁ	nmod:poss	her
30	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	31 יַּמְלִיכ	cc	and
31	יַּמְלִיכ	מָלַךְ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יֶּאֱהַ֨ב	conj	he
32	ֶ֖הָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 יַּמְלִיכ	obj	made her queen
33	תַּ֥חַת	תַּחַת	NOUN	_	31 יַּמְלִיכ	obl	in place of
34	וַשְׁתִּֽי	וַשְׁתִּי	PROPN	_	33 תַּ֥חַת	compound:smixut	Vashti
35	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	34 וַשְׁתִּֽי	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	who makes it happen (AA)
יֶּאֱהַב he loved	wayyiqtol · qal	מֶּלֶךְ king	אֶסְתֵּר Esther
תִּשָּׂא־ she bore	wayyiqtol · qal	אֶסְתֵּר Esther	חֵן favor + חֶסֶד favor
יָּשֶׂם he put	wayyiqtol · qal	מֶּלֶךְ king	כֶּֽתֶר־ a crown
יַּמְלִיכ he	wayyiqtol · hiphil	ֶהָ made her queen		מֶּלֶךְ king

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

וּרְחֵם מַלְכָּא יַת אֶסְתֵּר מִכָּל נְשַׁיָא דַהֲווּ מִתְנַסְבָן וְאִטְעֲנַת רַחֲמִין וְטִיבוּ קֳדָמוֹי מִכָּל בְּתוּלְתָּא וְשַׁוֵי מְנִיכָא דְדַהֲבָא עַל רֵישָׁהּ וּטְרַד מִן קַיְטוֹן בֵּית דַמָכֵיהּ יַת אִיקוֹנִין דְוַשְׁתִּי וְאוֹקִים תַּמָן יַת אִיקוֹנִין דְאֶסְתֵּר וְאוֹתִיב יָתָהּ עַל כּוּרְסֵי תִנְיָן וְאַמְלִיךְ יָתָהּ חֲלַף וַשְׁתִּי:

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.

And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

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:38.

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