Esther 1:12 · JPS 1917
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the chamberlains; therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Who acts: queen, king, anger · What happens: refuse, not come, be, burn, command, anger · To what, where: commandment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Esther 1:12 · 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 (queen, king, anger), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 refused | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | Vashti | Vashti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | appos |
| 5 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 refused | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 commandment | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 commandment | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 chamberlains | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chamberlains | det |
| 15 | chamberlains | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 come | obl:agent |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 wroth | punct |
| 17 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 22 wroth | advmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wroth | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wroth | nsubj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 wroth | advmod |
| 22 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 refused | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 burned | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 burned | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 anger | nmod:poss |
| 26 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 burned | nsubj |
| 27 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wroth | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 burned | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
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- statement
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- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the queen | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not come | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | the king's commandment | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at commandment=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the king | therefore, wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | burn | past | king's anger | in king | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in he=Location | ||||
| 5 | command | the king | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | anger | king | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
וַתְּמָאֵ֞ן הַמַּלְכָּ֣ה וַשְׁתִּ֗י לָבוֹא֙ בִּדְבַ֣ר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּיַ֣ד הַסָּרִיסִ֑ים וַיִּקְצֹ֤ף הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ מְאֹ֔ד וַחֲמָת֖וֹ בָּעֲרָ֥ה בֽוֹ׃
Esther 1:12: 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:11 of Mova's parse database.
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