Esther 8:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
Who acts: Mordecai, Esther · What happens: come, tell, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Esther 8:1 · 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 (Mordecai, Esther), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | Mordecai | Mordecai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 told | mark |
| 9 | Esther | Esther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 her | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 her | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 her | cop |
| 15 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Mordecai | before the king | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before king=Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | Esther | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | unto Mordecai | 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
בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא נָתַ֞ן הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ֙ לְאֶסְתֵּ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֔ה אֶת־בֵּ֥ית הָמָ֖ן צֹרֵ֣ר הַיְּהוּדִ֑ים וּמָרְדֳּכַ֗י בָּ֚א לִפְנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כִּֽי־הִגִּ֥ידָה אֶסְתֵּ֖ר מַ֥ה הוּא־לָֽהּ׃
Esther 8:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen.
- And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EST:126 of Mova's parse database.
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