Esther 2:21 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: Mordecai, two · What happens: sit, keep, be, seek, lay · To what, where: gate, door, hands

This is Esther 2:21 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 — Mordecai, two — and what happens in the verse to gate, door, hands, 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.

בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם וּמָרְדֳּכַ֖י יֹשֵׁ֣ב בְּשַֽׁעַר־הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ קָצַף֩ בִּגְתָ֨ן וָתֶ֜רֶשׁ שְׁנֵֽי־סָרִיסֵ֤י הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ מִשֹּׁמְרֵ֣י הַסַּ֔ף וַיְבַקְשׁוּ֙ לִשְׁלֹ֣חַ יָ֔ד בַּמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵֽרֹשׁ׃

in those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those that kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

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	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	3 יָּמִ֣ים	case	in
2	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	3 יָּמִ֣ים	det	the
3	יָּמִ֣ים	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	root	root	days
4	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	5 הֵ֔ם	det	(the)
5	הֵ֔ם	הֵם	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 יָּמִ֣ים	det	those
6	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	8 יֹשֵׁ֣ב	cc	and
7	מָרְדֳּכַ֖י	מׇרְדֳּכַי	PROPN	_	8 יֹשֵׁ֣ב	nsubj	Mordecai
8	יֹשֵׁ֣ב	יָשַׁב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	3 יָּמִ֣ים	conj	[was] sitting
9	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	10 שַֽׁעַר־	case	at
10	שַֽׁעַר־	שַׁעַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 יֹשֵׁ֣ב	obl	the gate
11	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	12 מֶּ֑לֶךְ	det	of
12	מֶּ֑לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	10 שַֽׁעַר־	compound:smixut	the king
13	קָצַף֩	קָצַף	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	3 יָּמִ֣ים	parataxis	he was angry
14	בִּגְתָ֨ן	בִּגְתָן	PROPN	_	13 קָצַף֩	nsubj	Bigthan
15	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	16 תֶ֜רֶשׁ	cc	and
16	תֶ֜רֶשׁ	תֶּרֶשׁ	PROPN	_	14 בִּגְתָ֨ן	conj	Teresh
17	שְׁנֵֽי־	שְׁנַיִם	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Dual	18 סָרִיסֵ֤י	nummod	two
18	סָרִיסֵ֤י	סָרִיס	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	14 בִּגְתָ֨ן	appos	of the eunuchs
19	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	20 מֶּ֙לֶךְ֙	det	of
20	מֶּ֙לֶךְ֙	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	18 סָרִיסֵ֤י	compound:smixut	the king
21	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	22 שֹּׁמְרֵ֣י	case	of
22	שֹּׁמְרֵ֣י	שָׁמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur	18 סָרִיסֵ֤י	nmod	the keepers
23	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	24 סַּ֔ף	det	of
24	סַּ֔ף	סַף	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	22 שֹּׁמְרֵ֣י	compound:smixut	the threshold
25	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	26 יְבַקְשׁוּ֙	cc	and
26	יְבַקְשׁוּ֙	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur Person=3	3 יָּמִ֣ים	conj	they sought
27	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	28 שְׁלֹ֣חַ	case	to
28	שְׁלֹ֣חַ	שָׁלַח	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	26 יְבַקְשׁוּ֙	advcl	stretch out
29	יָ֔ד	יָד	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 שְׁלֹ֣חַ	obj	a hand
30	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	32 מֶּ֖לֶךְ	case	on
31	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	32 מֶּ֖לֶךְ	det	the
32	מֶּ֖לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	28 שְׁלֹ֣חַ	obl	king
33	אֲחַשְׁוֵֽרֹשׁ	אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ	PROPN	_	32 מֶּ֖לֶךְ	appos	Ahasuerus
34	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	33 אֲחַשְׁוֵֽרֹשׁ	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יֹשֵׁב [was] sitting	participle active · qal	מָרְדֳּכַי Mordecai
קָצַף he was angry	qatal · qal	בִּגְתָן Bigthan + תֶרֶשׁ Teresh
שֹּׁמְרֵי the keepers	participle active · qal		סַּף the threshold
יְבַקְשׁוּ they sought	wayyiqtol · piel	בִּגְתָן Bigthan + תֶרֶשׁ Teresh
שְׁלֹחַ stretch out	infinitive construct · qal	בִּגְתָן Bigthan + תֶרֶשׁ Teresh	יָד a hand

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

בְּיוֹמַיָא הָאִנוּן וּמָרְדְכַי יָתִיב בְּסַנְהֶדְרִין דְתַקִינַת לֵיהּ אֶסְתֵּר בִּתְרַע מַלְכָּא וְכַד חֲזוּ תְּרֵין רַבְרְבָנַיָא כְּדֵין כְּנַסוּ וּקְצַפוּ וַאֲמָרוּ דֵין לָדֵין הֲלָא מַלְכְּתָא בְּפִתְגָם מַלְכָּא בָּעַיָא לְסַלָקָא יָתָן וּלְאוֹקָמָא יַת מָרְדְכַי לֵית רְבוּתָא לְסַלָקָא תְּרֵין קְלוֹסַנְתַּרִין וּלְאוֹקָמָא חַד בְּכֵן אִתְיַעֲטוּ בְּלִישַׁנְהוֹן בִּגְתָן וָתֶרֶשׁ טִרְסָאֵי תְּרֵין רַבְרְבָנֵי מַלְכָּא מִנַטְרֵי פַלְטִירָא וַאֲמָרוּ לְאַשְׁקָאָה סַמָא דְמוֹתָא דִמְטוּל לְאֶסְתֵּר מַלְכְּתָא וּלְאוֹשִׁיטָא יְדָא בְמַלְכָּא אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ לְמִקְטְלֵיהּ בְּסַיְפָא בְּבֵית דְמוּכֵיהּ:

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.

in those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those that kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

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:42.

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