Esther 1:1 · JPS 1917

NOW IT came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus — this is Ahasuerus who reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces —

Who acts: IT, this, Ahasuerus · What happens: come, pass, be, reign · To what, where: Ahasuerus, hundred provinces, India

This is Esther 1:1 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IT, this, Ahasuerus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	NOW	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	IT	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 days	det
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pass	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Ahasuerus	case
10	Ahasuerus	Ahasuerus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 days	nmod
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 Ahasuerus	punct
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 Ahasuerus	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Ahasuerus	cop
14	Ahasuerus	Ahasuerus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	parataxis
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 reigned	nsubj
16	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Ahasuerus	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 India	punct
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 India	case
19	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 reigned	obl
20	even	even	ADV	_	22 Ethiopia	advmod
21	unto	unto	ADP	_	22 Ethiopia	case
22	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 reigned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 provinces	punct
24	over	over	ADV	_	26 hundred	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hundred	det
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 provinces	nummod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seven	cc
28	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 hundred	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 twenty	cc
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 seven	conj
31	provinces	province	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 reigned	obl
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	IT			now		tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive				day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	this	Ahasuerus				tree rules
4	reign	past	Ahasuerus	hundred provinces	India		unto Ethiopia	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The Hebrew of this verse

וַיְהִ֖י בִּימֵ֣י אֲחַשְׁוֵר֑וֹשׁ ה֣וּא אֲחַשְׁוֵר֗וֹשׁ הַמֹּלֵךְ֙ מֵהֹ֣דּוּ וְעַד־כּ֔וּשׁ שֶׁ֛בַע וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּמֵאָ֖ה מְדִינָֽה׃

Esther 1:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EST:0 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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