Esther 2:2 אֶסְתֵּר
Who acts: servants · What happens: say, minister, let, seek, look on · To what, where: young virgins · Speech: someone speaks in this verse
This is Esther 2:2 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 — servants — and what happens in the verse to young virgins, 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.
וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ נַעֲרֵֽי־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מְשָׁרְתָ֑יו יְבַקְשׁ֥וּ לַמֶּ֛לֶךְ נְעָר֥וֹת בְּתוּל֖וֹת טוֹב֥וֹת מַרְאֶֽה׃
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 יֹּאמְר֥וּ | cc | and |
| 2 | יֹּאמְר֥וּ | אָמַר | VERB | Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3 | root | root | they said |
| 3 | נַעֲרֵֽי־ | נַעַר | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Plur | 2 יֹּאמְר֥וּ | nsubj | the young men |
| 4 | הַ | הַ | DET | PronType=Art | 5 מֶּ֖לֶךְ | det | of |
| 5 | מֶּ֖לֶךְ | מֶלֶךְ | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Sing | 3 נַעֲרֵֽי־ | compound:smixut | the king |
| 6 | מְשָׁרְתָ֑י | שָׁרַת | VERB | Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur | 3 נַעֲרֵֽי־ | appos | [who |
| 7 | ו | הוּא | PRON | Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 מְשָׁרְתָ֑י | nmod:poss | were] serving him |
| 8 | יְבַקְשׁ֥וּ | בָּקַשׁ | VERB | Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur Person=3 | 2 יֹּאמְר֥וּ | ccomp | let people seek |
| 9 | לַ | לְ | ADP | _ | 11 מֶּ֛לֶךְ | case | for |
| 10 | ה | הַ | DET | PronType=Art | 11 מֶּ֛לֶךְ | det | the |
| 11 | מֶּ֛לֶךְ | מֶלֶךְ | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Sing | 8 יְבַקְשׁ֥וּ | obl | king |
| 12 | נְעָר֥וֹת | נַעֲרָה | NOUN | Gender=Fem Number=Plur | 8 יְבַקְשׁ֥וּ | obj | young women |
| 13 | בְּתוּל֖וֹת | בְּתוּלָה | NOUN | Gender=Fem Number=Plur | 12 נְעָר֥וֹת | appos | virgins |
| 14 | טוֹב֥וֹת | טוֹב | ADJ | Gender=Fem Number=Plur | 13 בְּתוּל֖וֹת | amod | good |
| 15 | מַרְאֶֽה | מַרְאֶה | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Sing | 14 טוֹב֥וֹת | compound:smixut | of appearance |
| 16 | ׃ | ׃ | PUNCT | _ | 15 מַרְאֶֽה | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- speech
- a frame and its quote
- negation
- no
- the frame alone
- decl · narrate · none
| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| יֹּאמְרוּ they said | wayyiqtol · qal | נַעֲרֵֽי־ the young men | |||
| מְשָׁרְתָי [who | participle active · piel | נַעֲרֵֽי־ the young men | ו were] serving him | ||
| יְבַקְשׁוּ let people seek | jussive · piel | נַעֲרֵֽי־ the young men | נְעָרוֹת young women |
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
וַאֲמַרוּ עוּלֵמֵי דְמַלְכָּא מְשׁוּמְשָׁנוֹי יִבְעוּן לִצְרוֹךְ מַלְכָּא עֻלֵמָן בְּתוּלְתָּן שַׁפִּירָן דְחֵיזוּ:
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.
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:23.
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