Esther 9:29 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: Esther, power · What happens: write down, confirm, act, letter · To what, where: acts, second letter, Purim

This is Esther 9:29 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, power — and what happens in the verse to acts, second letter, Purim, 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.

וַ֠תִּכְתֹּב אֶסְתֵּ֨ר הַמַּלְכָּ֧ה בַת־אֲבִיחַ֛יִל וּמָרְדֳּכַ֥י הַיְּהוּדִ֖י אֶת־כָּל־תֹּ֑קֶף לְקַיֵּ֗ם אֵ֣ת אִגֶּ֧רֶת הַפּוּרִ֛ים הַזֹּ֖את הַשֵּׁנִֽית׃

Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote down all the acts of power, to confirm this second letter of Purim.

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	וַ֠	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 תִּכְתֹּב	cc	and
2	תִּכְתֹּב	כָּתַב	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	she wrote
3	אֶסְתֵּ֨ר	אֶסְתֵּר	PROPN	_	2 תִּכְתֹּב	nsubj	Esther
4	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	5 מַּלְכָּ֧ה	det	the
5	מַּלְכָּ֧ה	מַלְכָּה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	3 אֶסְתֵּ֨ר	appos	queen
6	בַת־	בַּת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	3 אֶסְתֵּ֨ר	appos	the daughter
7	אֲבִיחַ֛יִל	אֲבִיחַיִל	PROPN	_	6 בַת־	compound:smixut	of Abihail
8	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 מָרְדֳּכַ֥י	cc	and
9	מָרְדֳּכַ֥י	מׇרְדֳּכַי	PROPN	_	3 אֶסְתֵּ֨ר	conj	Mordecai
10	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 יְּהוּדִ֖י	det	the
11	יְּהוּדִ֖י	יְהוּדִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 מָרְדֳּכַ֥י	appos	Jew
12	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	13 כָּל־	case	with
13	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 תִּכְתֹּב	obl	all
14	תֹּ֑קֶף	תֹּקֶף	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 כָּל־	compound:smixut	authority
15	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	16 קַיֵּ֗ם	case	to
16	קַיֵּ֗ם	קוּם	VERB	HebBinyan=PIEL	2 תִּכְתֹּב	advcl	confirm
17	אֵ֣ת	אֵת	ADP	_	18 אִגֶּ֧רֶת	case	(et)
18	אִגֶּ֧רֶת	אִגֶּרֶת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	16 קַיֵּ֗ם	obj	the letter
19	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	20 פּוּרִ֛ים	det	of
20	פּוּרִ֛ים	פּוּר	PROPN	_	18 אִגֶּ֧רֶת	compound:smixut	the Purim
21	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	22 זֹּ֖את	det	(the)
22	זֹּ֖את	זֹאת	DET	Gender=Fem Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 אִגֶּ֧רֶת	det	this
23	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	24 שֵּׁנִֽית	det	(the)
24	שֵּׁנִֽית	שֵׁנִי	NUM	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	18 אִגֶּ֧רֶת	nummod	second
25	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	24 שֵּׁנִֽית	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
תִּכְתֹּב she wrote	wayyiqtol · qal	אֶסְתֵּר Esther + מָרְדֳּכַי Mordecai
קַיֵּם confirm	infinitive construct · piel	אֶסְתֵּר Esther + מָרְדֳּכַי Mordecai	אִגֶּרֶת the letter

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

וּכְתָבַת אֶסְתֵּר מַלְכְּתָא בַּת אֲבִיחַיִל וּמָרְדְכַי הַיְהוּדִי יַת כָּל מְגִלְתָּא הָדָא יַת תָּקְפָא דְנִסָא לְקַיָמָא יַת אִגְרְתָא דְפוּרַיָא הָדָא תִנְיֵינוּתָא:

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, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote down all the acts of power, to confirm this second letter of Purim.

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:160.

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