Esther 8:11 · JPS 1917

that the king had granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, and to slay, and to cause to perish, all the forces of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

Who acts: king, Jews, forces, people · What happens: grant, be, gather, stand, destroy, slay · To what, where: Jews, city, forces, spoil

This is Esther 8:11 · 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, Jews, forces, people), 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	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 granted	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 granted	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 granted	aux
5	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Jews	det
7	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 granted	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 city	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 city	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 city	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Jews	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 gather	mark
14	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 granted	xcomp
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 gather	obj
16	together	together	ADV	_	14 gather	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stand	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stand	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 stand	mark
20	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gather	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 life	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stand	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 destroy	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 destroy	mark
26	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gather	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 slay	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 slay	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 slay	mark
30	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 destroy	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cause	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cause	cc
33	to	to	PART	_	34 cause	mark
34	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 destroy	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 perish	mark
36	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 cause	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 forces	punct
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 forces	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 forces	det
40	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 cause	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 people	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 people	det
43	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 forces	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 province	cc
45	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 people	conj
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 assault	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 assault	aux
48	assault	assault	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 people	acl:relcl
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 assault	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 ones	punct
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 ones	nmod:poss
52	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 ones	amod
53	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 them	conj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 women	cc
55	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 ones	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 take	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 take	cc
58	to	to	PART	_	59 take	mark
59	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gather	conj
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 spoil	det
61	spoil	spoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 take	obj
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 them	case
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 spoil	nmod
64	for	for	ADP	_	66 prey	case
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 prey	det
66	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 take	obl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 granted	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grant	past · perfect	the king	the Jews			tree rules
2	is	past	the Jews		every city		tree rules
3	gather	to-infinitive	the king not said here	Jews = jew		together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
4	stand	to-infinitive	the king not said here			for Jews's life	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for life=Attribute
5	destroy	to-infinitive	the king not said here				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	slay	to-infinitive	the king not said here				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	cause	to-infinitive	the king not said here	all forces of the people and province			tree rules
8	perish	to-infinitive	all forces of the people and province not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
9	assault	would	the people and province	Jews = jew			vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
10	take	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the spoil of Jews		for a prey	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme for prey=Beneficiary
11	spoil			Jews = jew			nom spoil «possession transitive»: of=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

אֲשֶׁר֩ נָתַ֨ן הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ לַיְּהוּדִ֣ים ׀ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּכָל־עִיר־וָעִ֗יר לְהִקָּהֵל֮ וְלַעֲמֹ֣ד עַל־נַפְשָׁם֒ לְהַשְׁמִיד֩ וְלַהֲרֹ֨ג וּלְאַבֵּ֜ד אֶת־כָּל־חֵ֨יל עַ֧ם וּמְדִינָ֛ה הַצָּרִ֥ים אֹתָ֖ם טַ֣ף וְנָשִׁ֑ים וּשְׁלָלָ֖ם לָבֽוֹז׃

Esther 8:11: 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:138 of Mova's parse database.

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