Esther 9:23 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: Jews, Mordecai · What happens: take, do, begin, write

This is Esther 9:23 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 — Jews, Mordecai — and what happens in the verse, 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.

וְקִבֵּל֙ הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־הֵחֵ֖לּוּ לַעֲשׂ֑וֹת וְאֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־כָּתַ֥ב מָרְדֳּכַ֖י אֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

And the Jews took upon them to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

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	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 קִבֵּל֙	cc	and
2	קִבֵּל֙	קָבַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he accepted
3	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	4 יְּהוּדִ֔ים	det	the
4	יְּהוּדִ֔ים	יְהוּדִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 קִבֵּל֙	nsubj	Jews
5	אֵ֥ת	אֵת	ADP	_	2 קִבֵּל֙	obj	(et)
6	אֲשֶׁר־	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	7 הֵחֵ֖לּוּ	mark	[that] which
7	הֵחֵ֖לּוּ	חָלַל	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Plur Person=3	5 אֵ֥ת	acl:relcl	they had begun
8	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	9 עֲשׂ֑וֹת	case	to
9	עֲשׂ֑וֹת	עָשָׂה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	7 הֵחֵ֖לּוּ	xcomp	do
10	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	11 אֵ֛ת	cc	and
11	אֵ֛ת	אֵת	ADP	_	5 אֵ֥ת	conj	(et)
12	אֲשֶׁר־	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	13 כָּתַ֥ב	mark	[that] which
13	כָּתַ֥ב	כָּתַב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	11 אֵ֛ת	acl:relcl	he had written
14	מָרְדֳּכַ֖י	מׇרְדֳּכַי	PROPN	_	13 כָּתַ֥ב	nsubj	Mordecai
15	אֲלֵי	אֶל	ADP	_	16 הֶֽם	case	to
16	הֶֽם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 כָּתַ֥ב	obl	them
17	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	16 הֶֽם	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
קִבֵּל he accepted	qatal · piel	יְּהוּדִים Jews	הֵחֵלּוּ they had begun + כָּתַב he had written
הֵחֵלּוּ they had begun	qatal · hiphil	יְּהוּדִים Jews
עֲשׂוֹת do	infinitive construct · qal	יְּהוּדִים Jews
כָּתַב he had written	qatal · qal	מָרְדֳּכַי Mordecai

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

וְקַבִּילוּ עֲלַוֵיהוֹן כּוּלְהוֹן יְהוּדָאִין כַּחֲדָא יַת דִי שְׁרִיאוּ לְמֶעְבַּד וְיַת דִי גְזַר כְּתַב מָרְדְכַי בְּגִינְהוֹן:

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 the Jews took upon them to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

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:154.

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