Esther 7:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish.

What happens: sell, destroy, slain, perish · To what, where: we

This is Esther 7:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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: 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	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 sold	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	aux:pass
4	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 I	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj:pass
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 people	cc
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 people	nmod:poss
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 I	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 destroyed	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	13 destroyed	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 destroyed	aux:pass
13	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sold	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slain	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	17 slain	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 slain	aux:pass
17	slain	slain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 destroyed	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 perish	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 perish	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 perish	mark
21	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 destroyed	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	sell	present · passive	we	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	destroy	to-infinitive · passive		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»
3	slain	to-infinitive · passive		tree rules
4	perish	to-infinitive		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

כִּ֤י נִמְכַּ֙רְנוּ֙ אֲנִ֣י וְעַמִּ֔י לְהַשְׁמִ֖יד לַהֲר֣וֹג וּלְאַבֵּ֑ד וְ֠אִלּוּ לַעֲבָדִ֨ים וְלִשְׁפָח֤וֹת נִמְכַּ֙רְנוּ֙ הֶחֱרַ֔שְׁתִּי כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין הַצָּ֛ר שֹׁוֶ֖ה בְּנֵ֥זֶק הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

Esther 7:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →

This verse in JPS 1917:

for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish.
But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, for the adversary is not worthy that the king be endamaged.'

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EST:115 of Mova's parse database.

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