Esther 5:3 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: king, thy · What happens: say, give, request · To what, where: request · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Esther 5:3 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 — king, thy — and what happens in the verse to request, 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.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהּ֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ מַה־לָּ֖ךְ אֶסְתֵּ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֑ה וּמַה־בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֛ךְ עַד־חֲצִ֥י הַמַּלְכ֖וּת וְיִנָּ֥תֵֽן לָֽךְ׃

Then said the king unto her: 'What wilt thou, queen Esther? for whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be given thee.'

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 יֹּ֤אמֶר	cc	and
2	יֹּ֤אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he said
3	ל	לְ	ADP	_	4 ָהּ֙	case	to
4	ָהּ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	obl	her
5	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	6 מֶּ֔לֶךְ	det	the
6	מֶּ֔לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	nsubj	king
7	מַה־	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	9 ָ֖ךְ	nsubj	what?
8	לּ	לְ	ADP	_	9 ָ֖ךְ	case	[is] to
9	ָ֖ךְ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	ccomp	you
10	אֶסְתֵּ֣ר	אֶסְתֵּר	PROPN	_	9 ָ֖ךְ	parataxis	O Esther
11	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	12 מַּלְכָּ֑ה	det	the
12	מַּלְכָּ֑ה	מַלְכָּה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	10 אֶסְתֵּ֣ר	appos	queen
13	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	14 מַה־	cc	and
14	מַה־	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	9 ָ֖ךְ	conj	what?
15	בַּקָּשָׁת	בַּקָּשָׁה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	14 מַה־	nsubj	request
16	ֵ֛ךְ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 בַּקָּשָׁת	nmod:poss	[is] your
17	עַד־	עַד	ADP	_	18 חֲצִ֥י	case	up to
18	חֲצִ֥י	חֲצִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	22 יִנָּ֥תֵֽן	dislocated	(the) half
19	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	20 מַּלְכ֖וּת	det	of
20	מַּלְכ֖וּת	מַלְכוּת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	18 חֲצִ֥י	compound:smixut	the kingdom
21	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	22 יִנָּ֥תֵֽן	cc	and
22	יִנָּ֥תֵֽן	נָתַן	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Sing Person=3	9 ָ֖ךְ	parataxis	it will be given
23	ל	לְ	ADP	_	24 ָֽךְ	case	to
24	ָֽךְ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 יִנָּ֥תֵֽן	obl	you
25	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	24 ָֽךְ	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
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)
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal	מֶּלֶךְ king
יִנָּתֵֽן it will be given	jussive · niphal		בַּקָּשָׁת request

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

וַאֲמַר לָהּ מַלְכָּא מַה צְרוֹךְ אִית לִיךְ אֶסְתֵּר מַלְכְּתָא וּמַה בָּעוּתִיךְ אֲפִילוּ אִם אַנְתְּ בָּעַיָא לְפַלְגוּת מַלְכוּתִי אֶתְּנִינָהּ לִיךְ לְחוֹד לְמִבְנֵי בֵית מוּקְדְשָׁא דְאִיהוּ קָאֵם בִּתְחוּם פַּלְגוּת מַלְכוּתִי לָא אֶתֵּן לִיךְ דְהֵכְדֵין קַיְמִית בִּשְׁבוּעָה לְגֶשֶׁם עַרְבָאָה וְסַנְבַלַט חוֹרוֹנָאָה וְטוּבִיָה עַבְדָא עַמוֹנָאָה דְלָא לְמִשְׁבַּק לְמִבְנֵי יָתֵיהּ דְדָחֵל אֲנָא מִן יְהוּדָאֵי דִלְמָא יִמְרְדוּן בִּי הֲדָא בְעוּתָא לָא אַעְבֵּד לִיךְ מִלְתָא אַחְרִיתִּי דִי אַנְתְּ בָּעֲיָא מִנִי אֶגְזוֹר וְתִתְעֲבֵד בִּבְהִילוּ וּרְעוּתִיךְ אִתְיְהַב לִיךְ:

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.

Then said the king unto her: 'What wilt thou, queen Esther? for whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be given thee.'

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:79.

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