Esther 9:4 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: Mordecai, fame, man · What happens: be, go, wax · To what, where: house, provinces

This is Esther 9:4 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 — Mordecai, fame, man — and what happens in the verse to house, provinces, 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.

כִּֽי־גָ֤דוֹל מָרְדֳּכַי֙ בְּבֵ֣ית הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְשָׁמְע֖וֹ הוֹלֵ֣ךְ בְּכָל־הַמְּדִינ֑וֹת כִּֽי־הָאִ֥ישׁ מָרְדֳּכַ֖י הוֹלֵ֥ךְ וְגָדֽוֹל׃פ

For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went forth throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

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	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	2 גָ֤דוֹל	mark	(dm)
2	גָ֤דוֹל	גָּדוֹל	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	root	root	[was] great
3	מָרְדֳּכַי֙	מׇרְדֳּכַי	PROPN	_	2 גָ֤דוֹל	nsubj	Mordecai
4	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	5 בֵ֣ית	case	in
5	בֵ֣ית	בַּיִת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 גָ֤דוֹל	obl	the house
6	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	7 מֶּ֔לֶךְ	det	of
7	מֶּ֔לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	5 בֵ֣ית	compound:smixut	the king
8	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	11 הוֹלֵ֣ךְ	cc	and
9	שָׁמְע	שֹׁמַע	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 הוֹלֵ֣ךְ	nsubj	the report
10	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 שָׁמְע	nmod:poss	of him
11	הוֹלֵ֣ךְ	הָלַךְ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	2 גָ֤דוֹל	conj	[was] going
12	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	13 כָל־	case	in
13	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 הוֹלֵ֣ךְ	obl	all
14	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	15 מְּדִינ֑וֹת	det	the
15	מְּדִינ֑וֹת	מְדִינָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	13 כָל־	compound:smixut	provinces
16	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	20 הוֹלֵ֥ךְ	mark	(dm)
17	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	18 אִ֥ישׁ	det	the
18	אִ֥ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 הוֹלֵ֥ךְ	nsubj	man
19	מָרְדֳּכַ֖י	מׇרְדֳּכַי	PROPN	_	18 אִ֥ישׁ	appos	Mordecai
20	הוֹלֵ֥ךְ	הָלַךְ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	2 גָ֤דוֹל	advcl	[was] going
21	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	22 גָדֽוֹל	cc	and
22	גָדֽוֹל	גָּדוֹל	VERB	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 הוֹלֵ֥ךְ	conj	becoming great
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	22 גָדֽוֹל	punct
24	פ	פ	PUNCT	_	22 גָדֽוֹל	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)
הוֹלֵךְ [was] going	participle active · qal	שָׁמְע the report
הוֹלֵךְ [was] going	participle active · qal	אִישׁ man
גָדֽוֹל becoming great	adjective	אִישׁ man

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

אֲרוּם אַפּוֹטְרוֹפּוֹס וְרַב וְסַרְכָן מָרְדְכַי בְּבֵית מַלְכָּא וּמַטְבְּעֵיהּ נְפַק בְּכָל פִּלְכַיָא אֲרוּם גַבְרָא מָרְדְכַי רַב בֵּית אַבָּא לְמַלְכָּא וַאֲזֵיל וּמִתְרַבְרָב:

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.

For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went forth throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

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:135.

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