Esther 6:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him: 'If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.'
Who acts: wise men, thou, Mordecai · What happens: say, begin, fall, be, not prevail · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Esther 6:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (wise men, thou, Mordecai), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 men | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Zeresh | cc |
| 7 | Zeresh | Zeresh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 men | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Zeresh | appos |
| 10 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 prevail | punct |
| 14 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 seed | mark |
| 15 | Mordecai | Mordecai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 seed | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Mordecai | punct |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 whom | case |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 begun | obl |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 begun | nsubj |
| 20 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 begun | aux |
| 21 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 Mordecai | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 fall | mark |
| 23 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 begun | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 begun | punct |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 seed | cop |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 seed | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 seed | det |
| 28 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 prevail | advcl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Jews | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Jews | det |
| 31 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 seed | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 prevail | punct |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 prevail | nsubj |
| 34 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 36 prevail | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 prevail | advmod |
| 36 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 37 | against | against | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 prevail | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fall | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 fall | cc |
| 41 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 43 fall | aux |
| 42 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 43 fall | advmod |
| 43 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 prevail | conj |
| 44 | before | before | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 fall | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Haman's wise men and Zeresh | then | unto Haman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | begin | present · perfect | thou | before Mordecai | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | fall | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | Mordecai | of the seed; of the Jews | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not prevail | shall | thou | against Haman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against he=Location | ||||
| 6 | fall | shall | thou not said here | before Haman | surely property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
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
וַיְסַפֵּ֨ר הָמָ֜ן לְזֶ֤רֶשׁ אִשְׁתּוֹ֙ וּלְכָל־אֹ֣הֲבָ֔יו אֵ֖ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר קָרָ֑הוּ וַיֹּ֩אמְרוּ֩ל֨וֹ חֲכָמָ֜יו וְזֶ֣רֶשׁ אִשְׁתּ֗וֹ אִ֣ם מִזֶּ֣רַע הַיְּהוּדִ֡ים מָרְדֳּכַ֞י אֲשֶׁר֩ הַחִלּ֨וֹתָ לִנְפֹּ֤ל לְפָנָיו֙ לֹא־תוּכַ֣ל ל֔וֹ כִּֽי־נָפ֥וֹל תִּפּ֖וֹל לְפָנָֽיו׃
Esther 6:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him.
- Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him: 'If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EST:110 of Mova's parse database.
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