Esther 4:4 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: maidens, Esther, Mordecai · What happens: come, tell, pain, send, clothe, take · To what, where: sackcloth, Esther, queen, raiment, Mordecai · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Esther 4:4 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 — maidens, Esther, Mordecai — and what happens in the verse to sackcloth, Esther, queen, raiment, 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.

וַ֠תָּבוֹאינָהנַעֲר֨וֹת אֶסְתֵּ֤ר וְסָרִיסֶ֙יהָ֙ וַיַּגִּ֣ידוּ לָ֔הּ וַתִּתְחַלְחַ֥ל הַמַּלְכָּ֖ה מְאֹ֑ד וַתִּשְׁלַ֨ח בְּגָדִ֜ים לְהַלְבִּ֣ישׁ אֶֽת־מָרְדֳּכַ֗י וּלְהָסִ֥יר שַׂקּ֛וֹ מֵעָלָ֖יו וְלֹ֥א קִבֵּֽל׃

And Esther's maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly pained; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai; and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he accepted it not.

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	וַ֠	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 תָּבוֹאינָה	cc	and
2	תָּבוֹאינָה	בּוֹא	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they came
3	נַעֲר֨וֹת	נַעֲרָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	2 תָּבוֹאינָה	nsubj	the maids
4	אֶסְתֵּ֤ר	אֶסְתֵּר	PROPN	_	3 נַעֲר֨וֹת	compound:smixut	of Esther
5	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	6 סָרִיסֶ֙י	cc	and
6	סָרִיסֶ֙י	סָרִיס	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	3 נַעֲר֨וֹת	conj	eunuchs
7	הָ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 סָרִיסֶ֙י	nmod:poss	her
8	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 יַּגִּ֣ידוּ	cc	and
9	יַּגִּ֣ידוּ	נָגַד	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur Person=3	2 תָּבוֹאינָה	conj	they told
10	ל	לְ	ADP	_	11 ָ֔הּ	case	to
11	ָ֔הּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 יַּגִּ֣ידוּ	obl	her
12	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	13 תִּתְחַלְחַ֥ל	cc	and
13	תִּתְחַלְחַ֥ל	חיל	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=HITHPALPEL Number=Sing Person=3	2 תָּבוֹאינָה	conj	she agonized
14	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	15 מַּלְכָּ֖ה	det	the
15	מַּלְכָּ֖ה	מַלְכָּה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	13 תִּתְחַלְחַ֥ל	nsubj	queen
16	מְאֹ֑ד	מְאֹד	ADV	_	13 תִּתְחַלְחַ֥ל	advmod	exceedingly
17	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	18 תִּשְׁלַ֨ח	cc	and
18	תִּשְׁלַ֨ח	שָׁלַח	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 תָּבוֹאינָה	conj	she sent
19	בְּגָדִ֜ים	בֶּגֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	18 תִּשְׁלַ֨ח	obj	garments
20	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	21 הַלְבִּ֣ישׁ	case	to
21	הַלְבִּ֣ישׁ	לָבֵשׁ	VERB	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	18 תִּשְׁלַ֨ח	advcl	clothe
22	אֶֽת־	אֵת	ADP	_	23 מָרְדֳּכַ֗י	case	(et)
23	מָרְדֳּכַ֗י	מׇרְדֳּכַי	PROPN	_	21 הַלְבִּ֣ישׁ	obj	Mordecai
24	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	26 הָסִ֥יר	cc	and
25	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	26 הָסִ֥יר	case	to
26	הָסִ֥יר	סוּר	VERB	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	21 הַלְבִּ֣ישׁ	conj	remove
27	שַׂקּ	שַׂק	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	26 הָסִ֥יר	obj	sackcloth
28	֛וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 שַׂקּ	nmod:poss	his
29	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	31 ו	case	from
30	עָלָ֖י	עַל	ADP	_	31 ו	case	on
31	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 הָסִ֥יר	obl	him
32	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	34 קִבֵּֽל	cc	and
33	לֹ֥א	לֹא	ADV	_	34 קִבֵּֽל	advmod	not
34	קִבֵּֽל	קָבַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3	2 תָּבוֹאינָה	conj	he accepted [them]
35	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	34 קִבֵּֽל	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	who makes it happen (AA)
תָּבוֹאינָה they came	wayyiqtol · qal	נַעֲרוֹת the maids + סָרִיסֶי eunuchs
יַּגִּידוּ they told	wayyiqtol · hiphil	נַעֲרוֹת the maids + סָרִיסֶי eunuchs
תִּתְחַלְחַל she agonized	wayyiqtol · hithpalpel	מַּלְכָּה queen
תִּשְׁלַח she sent	wayyiqtol · qal	מַּלְכָּה queen	בְּגָדִים garments
הַלְבִּישׁ clothe	infinitive construct · hiphil	מָרְדֳּכַי Mordecai		נַעֲרוֹת the maids + סָרִיסֶי eunuchs
הָסִיר remove	infinitive construct · hiphil	שַׂקּ sackcloth		נַעֲרוֹת the maids + סָרִיסֶי eunuchs
not קִבֵּֽל he accepted [them]	qatal · piel	מָרְדֳּכַי Mordecai	בְּגָדִים garments

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

וְעָלָן עוּלֵימָן דְאֶסְתֵּר וְרַבָּנָהָא וְחַוִיאוּ לָהּ וְאִזְדַעְזְעַת מַלְכְּתָא לַחֲדָא וְשַׁדַרַת לְבוּשֵׁי מַלְכוּתָא לְמִלְבַּשׁ יַת מָרְדְכַי וּלְמַעֲדֵי יַת שַׂקֵיהּ מֵעִלַוֵיהּ וְלָא קַבֵּל:

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 Esther's maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly pained; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai; and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he accepted it not.

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:63.

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