Esther 8:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre.
Who acts: king · What happens: hold out · To what, where: golden sceptre, Esther
This is Esther 8:4 · 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: who acts (king), 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 held | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 held | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Esther | case |
| 7 | Esther | Esther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 held | iobj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sceptre | det |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sceptre | amod |
| 10 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | past | the king | the golden sceptre | Esther | then | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent esther=Theme sceptre=Eventuality |
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
וַיּ֤וֹשֶׁט הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ לְאֶסְתֵּ֔ר אֵ֖ת שַׁרְבִ֣ט הַזָּהָ֑ב וַתָּ֣קָם אֶסְתֵּ֔ר וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֖ד לִפְנֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃
Esther 8:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre.
- So Esther arose, and stood before the king.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EST:130 of Mova's parse database.
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