Esther 8:9 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: third month, Mordecai, provinces, Jews · What happens: call, be, write, accord, command · To what, where: scribes, month, hand, India · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Esther 8:9 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 — third month, Mordecai, provinces, Jews — and what happens in the verse to scribes, month, hand, India, 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.

וַיִּקָּרְא֣וּ סֹפְרֵֽי־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ בָּֽעֵת־הַ֠הִיא בַּחֹ֨דֶשׁ הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֜י הוּא־חֹ֣דֶשׁ סִיוָ֗ן בִּשְׁלוֹשָׁ֣ה וְעֶשְׂרִים֮ בּוֹ֒ וַיִּכָּתֵ֣ב כְּֽכָל־אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֣ה מָרְדֳּכַ֣י אֶל־הַיְּהוּדִ֡ים וְאֶ֣ל הָאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנִֽים־וְהַפַּחוֹת֩ וְשָׂרֵ֨י הַמְּדִינ֜וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ מֵהֹ֣דּוּ וְעַד־כּ֗וּשׁ שֶׁ֣בַע וְעֶשְׂרִ֤ים וּמֵאָה֙ מְדִינָ֔ה מְדִינָ֤ה וּמְדִינָה֙ כִּכְתָבָ֔הּ וְעַ֥ם וָעָ֖ם כִּלְשֹׁנ֑וֹ וְאֶ֨ל־הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים כִּכְתָבָ֖ם וְכִלְשׁוֹנָֽם׃

Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, even to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, a hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

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.

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

speech

narration

negation

no

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

וְאִתְקְרִיאוּ לַבְלָרִין דְמַלְכָּא בְּעִידָנָא הַהוּא בְּיַרְחֵי תְלִיתֵי הוּא יֶרַח סִיוָן בְּעַסְרִין וּתְלָתָא יוֹמִין בֵּיהּ וְאִכְּתִיב כְּכָל דִי פַקֵיד מָרְדְכַי לְוַת יְהוּדָאִין וּלְוַת אִסְטַרְטִילוֹסִין וְהֵפַרְכִין וְרַבְרְבָנִין דְמִתְמַנָן אַרְכוּנִין עַל פַּלְכַיָא דְמִן הִנְדְיָא רַבָּא וְעַד כּוּשׁ לִמְאָה וְעַסְרִין וּשְׁבַע פַּלְכִין פִּלְכָא וּפִלְכָא כְּרוֹשָׁם כְּתָבָהָא וְעַמָא וְעַמָא כְּמַמְלֵל לִישָׁנֵיהּ וּלְוַת יְהוּדָאִין כְּרוֹשָׁם כִּתְבֵיהוֹן וּכְמַמְלַל לִישָׁנֵהוֹן:

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.

1. Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, even to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, a hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

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