Esther 1:13 · JPS 1917

Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times — for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment;

Who acts: king, wise men · What happens: say, know, be · To what, where: wise men, manner, law · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Esther 1:13 · 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 (king, wise men), 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	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 men	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 men	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 times	det
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 knew	obj
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 manner	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 manner	mark
16	so	so	ADV	_	21 manner	advmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 manner	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 manner	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 king	case
21	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	parataxis
22	toward	toward	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	21 manner	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 all	acl:relcl
26	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knew	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 judgment	cc
28	judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 law	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king		the wise men	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient
2	know	past	the wise men			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past		the king's manner			toward all	tree rules
4	know	past		law and judgment				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus

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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לַחֲכָמִ֖ים יֹדְעֵ֣י הָֽעִתִּ֑ים כִּי־כֵן֙ דְּבַ֣ר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לִפְנֵ֕י כָּל־יֹדְעֵ֖י דָּ֥ת וָדִֽין׃

Esther 1:13: 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:12 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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