Esther 2:5 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: certain Jew, name, Mordecai · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Mordecai

This is Esther 2:5 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 — certain Jew, name, Mordecai — and what happens in the verse to Mordecai, 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.

אִ֣ישׁ יְהוּדִ֔י הָיָ֖ה בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַבִּירָ֑ה וּשְׁמ֣וֹ מָרְדֳּכַ֗י בֶּ֣ן יָאִ֧יר בֶּן־שִׁמְעִ֛י בֶּן־קִ֖ישׁ אִ֥ישׁ יְמִינִֽי׃

There was a certain Jew in Shushan the castle, whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

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	אִ֣ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	5 שׁוּשַׁ֣ן	nsubj	a man
2	יְהוּדִ֔י	יְהוּדִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	1 אִ֣ישׁ	appos	a Jew
3	הָיָ֖ה	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	5 שׁוּשַׁ֣ן	cop	he was
4	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	5 שׁוּשַׁ֣ן	case	in
5	שׁוּשַׁ֣ן	שׁוּשַׁן	PROPN	_	root	root	Susa
6	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	7 בִּירָ֑ה	det	the
7	בִּירָ֑ה	בִּירָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	5 שׁוּשַׁ֣ן	appos	citadel
8	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	11 מָרְדֳּכַ֗י	cc	and
9	שְׁמ	שֵׁם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 מָרְדֳּכַ֗י	nsubj	name
10	֣וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 שְׁמ	nmod:poss	his
11	מָרְדֳּכַ֗י	מׇרְדֳּכַי	PROPN	_	5 שׁוּשַׁ֣ן	conj	[was] Mordecai
12	בֶּ֣ן	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 מָרְדֳּכַ֗י	appos	the son
13	יָאִ֧יר	יָאִיר	PROPN	_	12 בֶּ֣ן	compound:smixut	of Jair
14	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 יָאִ֧יר	appos	the son
15	שִׁמְעִ֛י	שִׁמְעִי	PROPN	_	14 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Shimei
16	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 שִׁמְעִ֛י	appos	the son
17	קִ֖ישׁ	קִישׁ	PROPN	_	16 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Kish
18	אִ֥ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	17 קִ֖ישׁ	appos	a man
19	יְמִינִֽי	יְמִינִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	18 אִ֥ישׁ	appos	a Jaminite
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	19 יְמִינִֽי	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
הָיָה he was	qatal · qal	אִישׁ a man

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

גְבַר חֲסִידָא וּמוֹדֶה וּמְצַלֵי קֳדָם אֱלָהָא עַל עַמֵיהּ הֲוָה בְּשׁוּשָׁן בִּירַנְתָּא וּשְׁמֵיהּ מָרְדְכַי אִתְקְרֵי עַל דַהֲוָה מְתִיל לְמֵירָא דַכְיָא בַּר יָאִיר בַּר שִׁמְעִי בַּר גֵרָא בַּר קִישׁ גַבְרָא דְמִן שֵׁבֶט בִּנְיָמִין הוּא שִׁמְעִי דְאַקֵל יַת דָוִד וּבְעָא יוֹאָב לְמִקְטְלֵיהּ וְלָא שַׁבְקֵיהּ עַל דְאִסְתַּכֵּל בֵּיהּ בְּרוּחַ נְבוּאָה וַחֲמָא דְאִטְמוּסֵי מָרְדְכַי וְאֶסְתֵּר לְמִיפַּק מִנֵיהּ וּכְדוֹ פְסַק שִׁמְעִי מִלְמֵילַד פַּקֵד דָוִד לִשְׁלֹמֹה בְּרֵיהּ לְמִקְטַל יָתֵיהּ:

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.

There was a certain Jew in Shushan the castle, whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

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:26.

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