Esther 7:3 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: Esther, I, favour, life, thy, my · What happens: answer, say, find, please, let, give · To what, where: favour, sight, king, life, me, petition · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Esther 7:3 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 — Esther, I, favour, life, thy, my — and what happens in the verse to favour, sight, king, life, me, petition, 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.

וַתַּ֨עַן אֶסְתֵּ֤ר הַמַּלְכָּה֙ וַתֹּאמַ֔ר אִם־מָצָ֨אתִי חֵ֤ן בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְאִם־עַל־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ ט֑וֹב תִּנָּֽתֶן־לִ֤י נַפְשִׁי֙ בִּשְׁאֵ֣לָתִ֔י וְעַמִּ֖י בְּבַקָּשָׁתִֽי׃

Then Esther the queen answered and said: 'If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request;

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 תַּ֨עַן	cc	and
2	תַּ֨עַן	עָנָה	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	she answered
3	אֶסְתֵּ֤ר	אֶסְתֵּר	PROPN	_	2 תַּ֨עַן	nsubj	Esther
4	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	5 מַּלְכָּה֙	det	the
5	מַּלְכָּה֙	מַלְכָּה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	3 אֶסְתֵּ֤ר	appos	queen
6	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	7 תֹּאמַ֔ר	cc	and
7	תֹּאמַ֔ר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 תַּ֨עַן	conj	she said
8	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	9 מָצָ֨אתִי	mark	if
9	מָצָ֨אתִי	מָצָא	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	22 תִּנָּֽתֶן־	parataxis	I have found
10	חֵ֤ן	חֵן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 מָצָ֨אתִי	obj	favor
11	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	12 עֵינֶ֙י	case	in
12	עֵינֶ֙י	עַיִן	NOUN	Number=Dual	9 מָצָ֨אתִי	obl	eyes
13	ךָ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 עֵינֶ֙י	nmod:poss	your
14	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	15 מֶּ֔לֶךְ	det	O
15	מֶּ֔לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 מָצָ֨אתִי	parataxis	king
16	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 ט֑וֹב	cc	and
17	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	21 ט֑וֹב	mark	if
18	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	20 מֶּ֖לֶךְ	case	[is] on
19	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	20 מֶּ֖לֶךְ	det	the
20	מֶּ֖לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 ט֑וֹב	obl	king
21	ט֑וֹב	טוֹב	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 מָצָ֨אתִי	conj	good
22	תִּנָּֽתֶן־	נָתַן	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Sing Person=3	7 תֹּאמַ֔ר	ccomp	let it be given
23	ל	לְ	ADP	_	24 ִ֤י	case	to
24	ִ֤י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 תִּנָּֽתֶן־	obl	me
25	נַפְשׁ	נֶפֶשׁ	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 תִּנָּֽתֶן־	nsubj	life
26	ִי֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 נַפְשׁ	nmod:poss	my
27	בִּ	בְּ	ADP	_	28 שְׁאֵ֣לָת	case	for
28	שְׁאֵ֣לָת	שְׁאֵלָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	22 תִּנָּֽתֶן־	obl	petition
29	ִ֔י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 שְׁאֵ֣לָת	nmod:poss	my
30	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	31 עַמּ	cc	and
31	עַמּ	עַם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	22 תִּנָּֽתֶן־	conj	people
32	ִ֖י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 עַמּ	nmod:poss	my
33	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	34 בַקָּשָׁת	case	for
34	בַקָּשָׁת	בַּקָּשָׁה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	31 עַמּ	obl	request
35	ִֽי	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 בַקָּשָׁת	nmod:poss	my
36	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	35 ִֽי	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
תַּעַן she answered	wayyiqtol · qal	אֶסְתֵּר Esther
תֹּאמַר she said	wayyiqtol · qal	אֶסְתֵּר Esther
מָצָאתִי I have found	qatal · qal	אֶסְתֵּר Esther	חֵן favor
תִּנָּֽתֶן־ let it be given	yiqtol · niphal		נַפְשׁ life

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

וּזְקָפַת אֶסְתֵּר יַת עֵינָהָא כְּלַפֵּי שְׁמַיָא וַאֲתִיבַת אֶסְתֵּר מַלְכְּתָא וַאֲמָרַת אִין אַשְׁכָּחִית רַחֲמִין קֳדָמָךְ מַלְכָּא רְמָא וְאִין קֳדָם מַלְכָּא דְאַרְעָא שַׁפִיר תִּתְיְהַב לִי שְׁזֵיב נַפְשִׁי מִן יְדוֹי דְסַנְאָה בִשְׁאֵלָתִי וּפוּרְקַן עַמִי מִן יְדוֹי דִבְעֵל דְבָבֵיהּ בְּבָעוּתִי:

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 Esther the queen answered and said: 'If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request;

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:107.

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