--- title: Esther 3:9 — If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.' Who acts: kingdom, I. 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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 — kingdom, I — and what happens in the verse to people, thousand talents, hands, charge, kingdom, treasuries, 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. אִם־עַל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ ט֔וֹב יִכָּתֵ֖ב לְאַבְּדָ֑ם וַעֲשֶׂ֨רֶת אֲלָפִ֜ים כִּכַּר־כֶּ֗סֶף אֶשְׁקוֹל֙ עַל־יְדֵי֙ עֹשֵׂ֣י הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה לְהָבִ֖יא אֶל־גִּנְזֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ [If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.56/) ## 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:53 # text = אִם־עַל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ ט֔וֹב יִכָּתֵ֖ב לְאַבְּדָ֑ם וַעֲשֶׂ֨רֶת אֲלָפִ֜ים כִּכַּר־כֶּ֗סֶף אֶשְׁקוֹל֙ עַל־יְדֵי֙ עֹשֵׂ֣י הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה לְהָבִ֖יא אֶל־גִּנְזֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ # verse = EST.3.9 1 אִם־ אִם SCONJ _ _ 5 mark _ Gloss=if|Ref=EST_3:9!1|MId=o170030090011|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No 2 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=[is].on|Ref=EST_3:9!2|MId=o170030090021|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 3-4 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=EST_3:9!3|MId=o170030090031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 מֶּ֣לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 obl _ Gloss=king|Ref=EST_3:9!3|MId=o170030090032|Strong=4428 5 ט֔וֹב טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 advcl _ Gloss=good|Ref=EST_3:9!4|MId=o170030090041|Strong=2896|Type=adjective 6 יִכָּתֵ֖ב כָּתַב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=let.it.be.written|Ref=EST_3:9!5|MId=o170030090051|Strong=3789|Type=yiqtol 7-9 לְאַבְּדָ֑ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=EST_3:9!6|MId=o170030090061|Strong=3807a 8 אַבְּד אָבַד VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 6 advcl _ Gloss=destroy|Ref=EST_3:9!6|MId=o170030090062|Strong=0006|Frame=A0:;A1:170030090063;|Type=infinitive_construct 9 ָ֑ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ Gloss=them|Ref=EST_3:9!6|MId=o170030090063|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 10-11 וַעֲשֶׂ֨רֶת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EST_3:9!7|MId=o170030090071|Strong=2050b 11 עֲשֶׂ֨רֶת עֲשָׂרָה NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 nummod _ Gloss=ten|Ref=EST_3:9!7|MId=o170030090072|Strong=6235|Type=cardinal_number 12 אֲלָפִ֜ים אֶלֶף NUM _ Number=Plur 11 flat _ Gloss=thousand(s)|Ref=EST_3:9!8|MId=o170030090081|Strong=0505|Type=cardinal_number 13 כִּכַּר־ כִּכָּר NOUN _ Number=Sing 15 obj _ Gloss=talent[s]|Ref=EST_3:9!9|MId=o170030090091|Strong=3603|SpaceAfter=No 14 כֶּ֗סֶף כֶּסֶף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.silver|Ref=EST_3:9!10|MId=o170030090101|Strong=3701 15 אֶשְׁקוֹל֙ שָׁקַל VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 6 conj _ Gloss=I.will.weigh.out|Ref=EST_3:9!11|MId=o170030090111|Strong=8254|Frame=A0:170030080021;A1:170030090091;|Type=yiqtol 16 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=EST_3:9!12|MId=o170030090121|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 17 יְדֵי֙ יָד NOUN _ Number=Dual 15 obl _ Gloss=the.hands|Ref=EST_3:9!13|MId=o170030090131|Strong=3027 18 עֹשֵׂ֣י עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 17 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.the.doers|Ref=EST_3:9!14|MId=o170030090141|Strong=6213|Frame=A1:170030090152;|Type=participle_active 19-20 הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 20 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=EST_3:9!15|MId=o170030090151|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 20 מְּלָאכָ֔ה מְלָאכָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.work|Ref=EST_3:9!15|MId=o170030090152|Strong=4399 21-22 לְהָבִ֖יא _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=EST_3:9!16|MId=o170030090161|Strong=3807a 22 הָבִ֖יא בּוֹא VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 15 advcl _ Gloss=bring.[it]|Ref=EST_3:9!16|MId=o170030090162|Strong=0935|Frame=AA:170030090141;A0:170030090091;|Type=infinitive_construct 23 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 24 case _ Gloss=into|Ref=EST_3:9!17|MId=o170030090171|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 24 גִּנְזֵ֥י גֶּנֶז NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 22 obl _ Gloss=the.treasuries|Ref=EST_3:9!18|MId=o170030090181|Strong=1595 25-26 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 25 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 26 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=EST_3:9!19|MId=o170030090191|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 26 מֶּֽלֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 24 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.king|Ref=EST_3:9!19|MId=o170030090192|Strong=4428 27 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 26 punct _ Ref=EST_3:9!19 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אַבְּד *destroy* | infinitive construct · piel | | ָם *them* | | | | אֶשְׁקוֹל *I will weigh out* | yiqtol · qal | | כִּכַּר־ *talent\[s\]* | | | | עֹשֵׂי *of the doers* | participle active · qal | | מְּלָאכָה *the work* | | | | הָבִיא *bring \[it\]* | infinitive construct · hiphil | כִּכַּר־ *talent\[s\]* | | | עֹשֵׂי *of the doers* | 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} אִין עַל מַלְכָּא שְׁפַר יִכָּתֵב כְּתָבָא לְאוֹבָדָא יַתְהוֹן וַעֲשֶׂרֶת אַלְפִין כִּכְּרִין דִכְסַף אֶתְקוֹל עַל יְדוֹי עַבְדֵי עֲבִידְתָּא לְמֵיתֵי לְבֵית גִנְזוֹי דְמַלְכָּא וּמַן יָכִיל מָנֵי שִׁתִּין רִבְבָן דְסַלְקָן אֲבָהַתְהוֹן מִן שִׁעֲבּוּדְהוֹן דְמִצְרָאֵי: 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. [If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.56/) **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:53`. - ← previous: [Esther 3:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.3.8/) - next →: [Esther 3:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.3.10/) - ↑ back to [Esther 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST/3/)