Esther 8:3 · JPS 1917
And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
Who acts: Esther · What happens: speak, fall down, beseech, put away, devise · To what, where: feet, Esther, mischief, device · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Esther 8:3 · 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 (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 spoke | cc |
| 2 | Esther | Esther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 again | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 fell | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 besought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 besought | cc |
| 18 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 besought | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 tears | case |
| 21 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 besought | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 put | mark |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 besought | advcl |
| 24 | away | away | ADP | _ | 23 put | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mischief | det |
| 26 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Haman | case |
| 28 | Haman | Haman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 mischief | nmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Agagite | det |
| 30 | Agagite | Agagite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Haman | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 device | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 device | cc |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 device | nmod:poss |
| 34 | device | device | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mischief | conj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 devised | obj |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 devised | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 devised | aux |
| 38 | devised | devise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 device | acl:relcl |
| 39 | against | against | ADP | _ | 41 Jews | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Jews | det |
| 41 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 38 devised | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Esther | before the king; again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall down | past | Esther not said here | Esther's feet | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | |||
| 3 | beseech | past | Esther not said here | Esther | with tears | tree rules | |||
| 4 | put away | to-infinitive | Esther not said here | the mischief of Haman and Esther's device | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mischief=Goal | ||||
| 5 | devise | past · perfect | Esther | Esther's device | against the Jews | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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
וַתּ֣וֹסֶף אֶסְתֵּ֗ר וַתְּדַבֵּר֙ לִפְנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַתִּפֹּ֖ל לִפְנֵ֣י רַגְלָ֑יו וַתֵּ֣בְךְּ וַתִּתְחַנֶּן־ל֗וֹ לְהַֽעֲבִיר֙ אֶת־רָעַת֙ הָמָ֣ן הָֽאֲגָגִ֔י וְאֵת֙ מַֽחֲשַׁבְתּ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָשַׁ֖ב עַל־הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃
Esther 8:3: 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:129 of Mova's parse database.
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