--- title: Esther 2:4 — and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti.' And the thing pleased the king; and he did so. Who acts: you, maiden, thing. 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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 — you, maiden, thing — and what happens in the verse to maiden, king, queen, 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. וְהַֽנַּעֲרָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר תִּיטַב֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ תִּמְלֹ֖ךְ תַּ֣חַת וַשְׁתִּ֑י וַיִּיטַ֧ב הַדָּבָ֛ר בְּעֵינֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וַיַּ֥עַשׂ כֵּֽן׃ס [and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti.' And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.26/) ## The tree {#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. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:EST:25 # text = וְהַֽנַּעֲרָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר תִּיטַב֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ תִּמְלֹ֖ךְ תַּ֣חַת וַשְׁתִּ֑י וַיִּיטַ֧ב הַדָּבָ֛ר בְּעֵינֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וַיַּ֥עַשׂ כֵּֽן׃ס # verse = EST.2.4 1-3 וְהַֽנַּעֲרָ֗ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EST_2:4!1|MId=o170020040011|Strong=2050b 2 הַֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 3 det _ Gloss=the.young|Ref=EST_2:4!1|MId=o170020040012|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 3 נַּעֲרָ֗ה נַעֲרָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Gloss=woman|Ref=EST_2:4!1|MId=o170020040013|Strong=5291 4 אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 5 mark _ Gloss=who|Ref=EST_2:4!2|MId=o170020040021|Strong=0834|Type=relative 5 תִּיטַב֙ יָטַב VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 acl:relcl _ Gloss=she.will.be.good|Ref=EST_2:4!3|MId=o170020040031|Strong=3190|Frame=A0:170020040013;|Type=yiqtol 6-7 בְּעֵינֵ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=EST_2:4!4|MId=o170020040041|Strong=0871a 7 עֵינֵ֣י עַיִן NOUN _ Number=Dual 5 obl _ Gloss=the.eyes|Ref=EST_2:4!4|MId=o170020040042|Strong=5869 8-9 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 9 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=EST_2:4!5|MId=o170020040051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 9 מֶּ֔לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.king|Ref=EST_2:4!5|MId=o170020040052|Strong=4428 10 תִּמְלֹ֖ךְ מָלַךְ VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=she.will.reign|Ref=EST_2:4!6|MId=o170020040061|Strong=4427|Frame=A0:170020040013;|Type=jussive 11 תַּ֣חַת תַּחַת NOUN _ _ 10 obl _ Gloss=in.place.of|Ref=EST_2:4!7|MId=o170020040071|Strong=8478 12 וַשְׁתִּ֑י וַשְׁתִּי PROPN _ _ 11 compound:smixut _ Gloss=Vashti|Ref=EST_2:4!8|MId=o170020040081|Strong=2060 13-14 וַיִּיטַ֧ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EST_2:4!9|MId=o170020040091|Strong=2050b 14 יִּיטַ֧ב יָטַב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 10 conj _ Gloss=it.was.good|Ref=EST_2:4!9|MId=o170020040092|Strong=3190|Frame=A0:170020040102;|Type=wayyiqtol 15-16 הַדָּבָ֛ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 16 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=EST_2:4!10|MId=o170020040101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 16 דָּבָ֛ר דָּבָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Gloss=word|Ref=EST_2:4!10|MId=o170020040102|Strong=1697 17-18 בְּעֵינֵ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=EST_2:4!11|MId=o170020040111|Strong=0871a 18 עֵינֵ֥י עַיִן NOUN _ Number=Dual 14 obl _ Gloss=the.eyes|Ref=EST_2:4!11|MId=o170020040112|Strong=5869 19-20 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 20 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=EST_2:4!12|MId=o170020040121|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 20 מֶּ֖לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.king|Ref=EST_2:4!12|MId=o170020040122|Strong=4428 21-22 וַיַּ֥עַשׂ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 22 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EST_2:4!13|MId=o170020040131|Strong=2050b 22 יַּ֥עַשׂ עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 10 conj _ Gloss=he.did|Ref=EST_2:4!13|MId=o170020040132|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:170020040122;|Type=wayyiqtol 23 כֵּֽן כֵּן ADV _ _ 22 advmod _ Gloss=thus|Ref=EST_2:4!14|MId=o170020040141|Strong=3651|Type=demonstrative|SpaceAfter=No 24 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=EST_2:4!14|SpaceAfter=No 25 ס ס PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=EST_2:4!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | תִּיטַב *she will be good* | yiqtol · qal | נַּעֲרָה *woman* | | | | | תִּמְלֹךְ *she will reign* | jussive · qal | נַּעֲרָה *woman* | | | | | יִּיטַב *it was good* | wayyiqtol · qal | דָּבָר *word* | | | | | יַּעַשׂ *he did* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֶּלֶךְ *the king* | | | | 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 {#onkelos} וְעוּלֶמְתָּא דִי תִשְׁפַּר קֳדָם מַלְכָּא תֵּעוּל לְמֶחְסַן מַלְכוּתָא חֲלַף וַשְׁתִּי וּשְׁפַר פִּתְגָמָא קֳדָם מַלְכָּא וַעֲבַד הָכִי: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} 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. [and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti.' And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.26/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:25`. - ← previous: [Esther 2:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.3/) - next →: [Esther 2:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.5/) - ↑ back to [Esther 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST/2/)