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title: Esther 3:10 — And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. Who acts: king. Esther 3:10 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 3:10 אֶסְתֵּר

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** take, give · **To what, where:** ring, hand

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This is Esther 3:10 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 — king — and what happens in the verse to ring, hand, 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.

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וַיָּ֧סַר הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶת־טַבַּעְתּ֖וֹ מֵעַ֣ל יָד֑וֹ וַֽיִּתְּנָ֗הּ לְהָמָ֧ן בֶּֽן־הַמְּדָ֛תָא הָאֲגָגִ֖י צֹרֵ֥ר הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃

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[And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.57/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:54
# text = וַיָּ֧סַר הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶת־טַבַּעְתּ֖וֹ מֵעַ֣ל יָד֑וֹ וַֽיִּתְּנָ֗הּ לְהָמָ֧ן בֶּֽן־הַמְּדָ֛תָא הָאֲגָגִ֖י צֹרֵ֥ר הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃
# verse = EST.3.10
1-2	וַיָּ֧סַר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EST_3:10!1|MId=o170030100011|Strong=2050b
2	יָּ֧סַר	סוּר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.removed|Ref=EST_3:10!1|MId=o170030100012|Strong=5493|Frame=AA:170030100022;A0:170030100041;|Type=wayyiqtol
3-4	הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	4	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=EST_3:10!2|MId=o170030100021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
4	מֶּ֛לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=king|Ref=EST_3:10!2|MId=o170030100022|Strong=4428
5	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=EST_3:10!3|MId=o170030100031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
6-7	טַבַּעְתּ֖וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	טַבַּעְתּ	טַבַּעַת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Gloss=signet-ring|Ref=EST_3:10!4|MId=o170030100041|Strong=2885
7	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=EST_3:10!4|MId=o170030100042|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
8-9	מֵעַ֣ל	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=EST_3:10!5|MId=o170030100051|Strong=4480
9	עַ֣ל	עַל	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=EST_3:10!5|MId=o170030100052|Strong=5921
10-11	יָד֑וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	יָד	יָד	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=hand|Ref=EST_3:10!6|MId=o170030100061|Strong=3027
11	֑וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=EST_3:10!6|MId=o170030100062|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
12-14	וַֽיִּתְּנָ֗הּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	13	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EST_3:10!7|MId=o170030100071|Strong=2050b
13	יִּתְּנ	נָתַן	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he|Ref=EST_3:10!7|MId=o170030100072|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:170030100022;A1:170030100073;|Type=wayyiqtol
14	ָ֗הּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	Gloss=gave.it|Ref=EST_3:10!7|MId=o170030100073|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal
15-16	לְהָמָ֧ן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	16	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=EST_3:10!8|MId=o170030100081|Strong=3807a
16	הָמָ֧ן	הָמָן	PROPN	_	_	13	obl	_	Gloss=Haman|Ref=EST_3:10!8|MId=o170030100082|Strong=2001
17	בֶּֽן־	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	appos	_	Gloss=the.son|Ref=EST_3:10!9|MId=o170030100091|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No
18	הַמְּדָ֛תָא	הַמְּדָתָא	PROPN	_	_	17	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Hammedatha|Ref=EST_3:10!10|MId=o170030100101|Strong=4099a
19-20	הָאֲגָגִ֖י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	20	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=EST_3:10!11|MId=o170030100111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
20	אֲגָגִ֖י	אֲגָגִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	appos	_	Gloss=Agagite|Ref=EST_3:10!11|MId=o170030100112|Strong=0091|Type=gentilic
21	צֹרֵ֥ר	צָרַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	16	appos	_	Gloss=the.harasser|Ref=EST_3:10!12|MId=o170030100121|Strong=6887a|Frame=A0:170030100082;A1:170030100132;|Type=participle_active
22-23	הַיְּהוּדִֽים	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
22	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	23	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=EST_3:10!13|MId=o170030100131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
23	יְּהוּדִֽים	יְהוּדִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	21	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.Jews|Ref=EST_3:10!13|MId=o170030100132|Strong=3064|Type=gentilic
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	23	punct	_	Ref=EST_3:10!13
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יָּסַר *he removed* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | טַבַּעְתּ *signet-ring* |  |  | מֶּלֶךְ *king* |
| יִּתְּנ *he* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֶּלֶךְ *king* | ָהּ *gave it* |  |  |
| צֹרֵר *the harasser* | participle active · qal | הָמָן *Haman* | יְּהוּדִֽים *the Jews* |  |  |

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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}

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וְאַעְדֵי מַלְכָּא יַת גוּשְׁפַּנְקֵיהּ מֵעִלַוֵי יְדֵיהּ וִיהָבָא לְהָמָן בַּר הַמְדָתָא דְמִזַרְעִית אֲגַג מְעִיקָא דִיהוּדָאֵי:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.57/)

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**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:54`.

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