Esther 8:3 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: Esther · What happens: speak, fall down, beseech, put away, devise · To what, where: feet, Esther, mischief, device · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Esther 8:3 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 — and what happens in the verse to feet, Esther, mischief, device, 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.

וַתּ֣וֹסֶף אֶסְתֵּ֗ר וַתְּדַבֵּר֙ לִפְנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַתִּפֹּ֖ל לִפְנֵ֣י רַגְלָ֑יו וַתֵּ֣בְךְּ וַתִּתְחַנֶּן־ל֗וֹ לְהַֽעֲבִיר֙ אֶת־רָעַת֙ הָמָ֣ן הָֽאֲגָגִ֔י וְאֵת֙ מַֽחֲשַׁבְתּ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָשַׁ֖ב עַל־הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃

And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

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 תּ֣וֹסֶף	cc	and
2	תּ֣וֹסֶף	יָסַף	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	she repeated
3	אֶסְתֵּ֗ר	אֶסְתֵּר	PROPN	_	2 תּ֣וֹסֶף	nsubj	Esther
4	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	5 תְּדַבֵּר֙	cc	and
5	תְּדַבֵּר֙	דָבַר	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3	2 תּ֣וֹסֶף	conj	she spoke
6	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	7 פְנֵ֣י	case	before
7	פְנֵ֣י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 תְּדַבֵּר֙	obl
8	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	9 מֶּ֔לֶךְ	det	the
9	מֶּ֔לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 פְנֵ֣י	compound:smixut	king
10	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	11 תִּפֹּ֖ל	cc	and
11	תִּפֹּ֖ל	נָפַל	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 תּ֣וֹסֶף	conj	she fell
12	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	13 פְנֵ֣י	case	before
13	פְנֵ֣י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 תִּפֹּ֖ל	obl
14	רַגְלָ֑י	רֶגֶל	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Dual	13 פְנֵ֣י	compound:smixut	feet
15	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 רַגְלָ֑י	nmod:poss	his
16	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	17 תֵּ֣בְךְּ	cc	and
17	תֵּ֣בְךְּ	בָּכָה	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 תּ֣וֹסֶף	conj	she wept
18	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	19 תִּתְחַנֶּן־	cc	and
19	תִּתְחַנֶּן־	חָנַן	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=HITHPAEL Number=Sing Person=3	17 תֵּ֣בְךְּ	conj	she sought favor
20	ל	לְ	ADP	_	21 ֗וֹ	case	to
21	֗וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 תִּתְחַנֶּן־	obl	him
22	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	23 הַֽעֲבִיר֙	case	to
23	הַֽעֲבִיר֙	עָבַר	VERB	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	19 תִּתְחַנֶּן־	advcl	take away
24	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	25 רָעַת֙	case	(et)
25	רָעַת֙	רָעָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	23 הַֽעֲבִיר֙	obj	the evil
26	הָמָ֣ן	הָמָן	PROPN	_	25 רָעַת֙	compound:smixut	of Haman
27	הָֽ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	28 אֲגָגִ֔י	det	the
28	אֲגָגִ֔י	אֲגָגִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	26 הָמָ֣ן	appos	Agagite
29	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	31 מַֽחֲשַׁבְתּ	cc	and
30	אֵת֙	אֵת	ADP	_	31 מַֽחֲשַׁבְתּ	case	(et)
31	מַֽחֲשַׁבְתּ	מַחֲשֶׁבֶת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	25 רָעַת֙	conj	plan
32	֔וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 מַֽחֲשַׁבְתּ	nmod:poss	his
33	אֲשֶׁ֥ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	34 חָשַׁ֖ב	mark	which
34	חָשַׁ֖ב	חָשַׁב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	31 מַֽחֲשַׁבְתּ	acl:relcl	he had planned
35	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	37 יְּהוּדִֽים	case	on
36	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	37 יְּהוּדִֽים	det	the
37	יְּהוּדִֽים	יְהוּדִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	34 חָשַׁ֖ב	obl	Jews
38	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	37 יְּהוּדִֽים	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	who makes it happen (AA)
תּוֹסֶף she repeated	wayyiqtol · hiphil	אֶסְתֵּר Esther
תְּדַבֵּר she spoke	wayyiqtol · piel	אֶסְתֵּר Esther
תִּפֹּל she fell	wayyiqtol · qal	אֶסְתֵּר Esther
תֵּבְךְּ she wept	wayyiqtol · qal	אֶסְתֵּר Esther
תִּתְחַנֶּן־ she sought favor	wayyiqtol · hithpael	אֶסְתֵּר Esther
הַֽעֲבִיר take away	infinitive construct · hiphil	רָעַת the evil + מַֽחֲשַׁבְתּ plan		מֶּלֶךְ king
חָשַׁב he had planned	qatal · qal	הָמָן of Haman	מַֽחֲשַׁבְתּ plan

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

וְאוֹסִיפַת אֶסְתֵּר וּמַלְלַת קֳדָם מַלְכָּא וּנְפָלַת קֳדָם רִגְלוֹי וּבְכִיאַת וּפַיְיסַת לֵיהּ לְבַטָלָא יַת בִּישַׁת הָמָן דְמִן יִחוּס דַאֲגַג וְיַת זִמְיוֹנֵיהּ דִי חֲשִׁיב עַל יְהוּדָאִין:

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 spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

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:117.

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