Esther 2:4 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: you, maiden, thing · What happens: let, please, be · To what, where: maiden, king, queen

This is Esther 2:4 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 — you, maiden, thing — and what happens in the verse to maiden, king, 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.

וְהַֽנַּעֲרָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר תִּיטַב֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ תִּמְלֹ֖ךְ תַּ֣חַת וַשְׁתִּ֑י וַיִּיטַ֧ב הַדָּבָ֛ר בְּעֵינֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וַיַּ֥עַשׂ כֵּֽן׃ס

and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti.' And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

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	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	10 תִּמְלֹ֖ךְ	cc	and
2	הַֽ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	3 נַּעֲרָ֗ה	det	the young
3	נַּעֲרָ֗ה	נַעֲרָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	10 תִּמְלֹ֖ךְ	nsubj	woman
4	אֲשֶׁ֤ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	5 תִּיטַב֙	mark	who
5	תִּיטַב֙	יָטַב	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	3 נַּעֲרָ֗ה	acl:relcl	she will be good
6	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	7 עֵינֵ֣י	case	in
7	עֵינֵ֣י	עַיִן	NOUN	Number=Dual	5 תִּיטַב֙	obl	the eyes
8	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	9 מֶּ֔לֶךְ	det	of
9	מֶּ֔לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 עֵינֵ֣י	compound:smixut	the king
10	תִּמְלֹ֖ךְ	מָלַךְ	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	she will reign
11	תַּ֣חַת	תַּחַת	NOUN	_	10 תִּמְלֹ֖ךְ	obl	in place of
12	וַשְׁתִּ֑י	וַשְׁתִּי	PROPN	_	11 תַּ֣חַת	compound:smixut	Vashti
13	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	14 יִּיטַ֧ב	cc	and
14	יִּיטַ֧ב	יָטַב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	10 תִּמְלֹ֖ךְ	conj	it was good
15	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	16 דָּבָ֛ר	det	the
16	דָּבָ֛ר	דָּבָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 יִּיטַ֧ב	nsubj	word
17	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	18 עֵינֵ֥י	case	in
18	עֵינֵ֥י	עַיִן	NOUN	Number=Dual	14 יִּיטַ֧ב	obl	the eyes
19	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	20 מֶּ֖לֶךְ	det	of
20	מֶּ֖לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	18 עֵינֵ֥י	compound:smixut	the king
21	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	22 יַּ֥עַשׂ	cc	and
22	יַּ֥עַשׂ	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	10 תִּמְלֹ֖ךְ	conj	he did
23	כֵּֽן	כֵּן	ADV	_	22 יַּ֥עַשׂ	advmod	thus
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	23 כֵּֽן	punct
25	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	23 כֵּֽן	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)
תִּיטַב she will be good	yiqtol · qal	נַּעֲרָה woman
תִּמְלֹךְ she will reign	jussive · qal	נַּעֲרָה woman
יִּיטַב it was good	wayyiqtol · qal	דָּבָר word
יַּעַשׂ he did	wayyiqtol · qal	מֶּלֶךְ the 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

וְעוּלֶמְתָּא דִי תִשְׁפַּר קֳדָם מַלְכָּא תֵּעוּל לְמֶחְסַן מַלְכוּתָא חֲלַף וַשְׁתִּי וּשְׁפַר פִּתְגָמָא קֳדָם מַלְכָּא וַעֲבַד הָכִי:

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 let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti.' And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

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:25.

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