--- title: Esther 2:5 — There was a certain Jew in Shushan the castle, whose name was Mordec… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: There was a certain Jew in Shushan the castle, whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a Benjamite, Who acts: certain Jew, name, Mordecai. 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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 — certain Jew, name, Mordecai — and what happens in the verse to Mordecai, 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. אִ֣ישׁ יְהוּדִ֔י הָיָ֖ה בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַבִּירָ֑ה וּשְׁמ֣וֹ מָרְדֳּכַ֗י בֶּ֣ן יָאִ֧יר בֶּן־שִׁמְעִ֛י בֶּן־קִ֖ישׁ אִ֥ישׁ יְמִינִֽי׃ [There was a certain Jew in Shushan the castle, whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a Benjamite,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.27/) ## 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:26 # text = אִ֣ישׁ יְהוּדִ֔י הָיָ֖ה בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַבִּירָ֑ה וּשְׁמ֣וֹ מָרְדֳּכַ֗י בֶּ֣ן יָאִ֧יר בֶּן־שִׁמְעִ֛י בֶּן־קִ֖ישׁ אִ֥ישׁ יְמִינִֽי׃ # verse = EST.2.5 1 אִ֣ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Gloss=a.man|Ref=EST_2:5!1|MId=o170020050011|Strong=0376 2 יְהוּדִ֔י יְהוּדִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 appos _ Gloss=a.Jew|Ref=EST_2:5!2|MId=o170020050021|Strong=3064|Type=gentilic 3 הָיָ֖ה הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 5 cop _ Gloss=he.was|Ref=EST_2:5!3|MId=o170020050031|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:170020050011;|Type=qatal 4-5 בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=EST_2:5!4|MId=o170020050041|Strong=0871a 5 שׁוּשַׁ֣ן שׁוּשַׁן PROPN _ _ 0 root _ Gloss=Susa|Ref=EST_2:5!4|MId=o170020050042|Strong=7800 6-7 הַבִּירָ֑ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=EST_2:5!5|MId=o170020050051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 בִּירָ֑ה בִּירָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 appos _ Gloss=citadel|Ref=EST_2:5!5|MId=o170020050052|Strong=1002 8-10 וּשְׁמ֣וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EST_2:5!6|MId=o170020050061|Strong=2050b 9 שְׁמ שֵׁם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Gloss=name|Ref=EST_2:5!6|MId=o170020050062|Strong=8034 10 ֣וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=EST_2:5!6|MId=o170020050063|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 11 מָרְדֳּכַ֗י מׇרְדֳּכַי PROPN _ _ 5 conj _ Gloss=[was].Mordecai|Ref=EST_2:5!7|MId=o170020050071|Strong=4782 12 בֶּ֣ן בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=EST_2:5!8|MId=o170020050081|Strong=1121 13 יָאִ֧יר יָאִיר PROPN _ _ 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Jair|Ref=EST_2:5!9|MId=o170020050091|Strong=2971 14 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=EST_2:5!10|MId=o170020050101|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 15 שִׁמְעִ֛י שִׁמְעִי PROPN _ _ 14 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Shimei|Ref=EST_2:5!11|MId=o170020050111|Strong=8096 16 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=EST_2:5!12|MId=o170020050121|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 17 קִ֖ישׁ קִישׁ PROPN _ _ 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Kish|Ref=EST_2:5!13|MId=o170020050131|Strong=7027 18 אִ֥ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 appos _ Gloss=a.man|Ref=EST_2:5!14|MId=o170020050141|Strong=0376 19 יְמִינִֽי יְמִינִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 appos _ Gloss=a.Jaminite|Ref=EST_2:5!15|MId=o170020050151|Strong=1145|Type=gentilic|SpaceAfter=No 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=EST_2:5!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | הָיָה *he was* | qatal · qal | אִישׁ *a 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 {#onkelos} גְבַר חֲסִידָא וּמוֹדֶה וּמְצַלֵי קֳדָם אֱלָהָא עַל עַמֵיהּ הֲוָה בְּשׁוּשָׁן בִּירַנְתָּא וּשְׁמֵיהּ מָרְדְכַי אִתְקְרֵי עַל דַהֲוָה מְתִיל לְמֵירָא דַכְיָא בַּר יָאִיר בַּר שִׁמְעִי בַּר גֵרָא בַּר קִישׁ גַבְרָא דְמִן שֵׁבֶט בִּנְיָמִין הוּא שִׁמְעִי דְאַקֵל יַת דָוִד וּבְעָא יוֹאָב לְמִקְטְלֵיהּ וְלָא שַׁבְקֵיהּ עַל דְאִסְתַּכֵּל בֵּיהּ בְּרוּחַ נְבוּאָה וַחֲמָא דְאִטְמוּסֵי מָרְדְכַי וְאֶסְתֵּר לְמִיפַּק מִנֵיהּ וּכְדוֹ פְסַק שִׁמְעִי מִלְמֵילַד פַּקֵד דָוִד לִשְׁלֹמֹה בְּרֵיהּ לְמִקְטַל יָתֵיהּ: 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. [There was a certain Jew in Shushan the castle, whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a Benjamite,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.27/) **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:26`. - ← previous: [Esther 2:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.4/) - next →: [Esther 2:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.6/) - ↑ back to [Esther 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST/2/)