Esther 1:15 · JPS 1917
'What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, forasmuch as she hath not done the bidding of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?'
Who acts: we, Vashti · What happens: do, accord, not do, bid · To what, where: bidding, king
This is Esther 1:15 · 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 (we, Vashti), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 8 queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 9 | Vashti | Vashti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 queen | appos |
| 10 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 law | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 according | fixed |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 done | punct |
| 14 | forasmuch | forasmuch | SCONJ | _ | 19 done | mark |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 forasmuch | fixed |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 done | nsubj |
| 17 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 done | advmod |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 do | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bidding | det |
| 21 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 done | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 king | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bidding | nmod |
| 25 | Ahasuerus | Ahasuerus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 king | appos |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 chamberlains | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chamberlains | det |
| 28 | chamberlains | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 done | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
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- wh-question
- act
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- voice
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- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | shall | we | unto the queen; accord law | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not do | present · perfect | Vashti | the bidding of the king | by the chamberlains | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | bid | the king | nom bidding «communication 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
כְּדָת֙ מַֽה־לַּעֲשׂ֔וֹת בַּמַּלְכָּ֖ה וַשְׁתִּ֑י עַ֣ל ׀ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־עָשְׂתָ֗ה אֶֽת־מַאֲמַר֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ בְּיַ֖ד הַסָּרִיסִֽים׃ס
Esther 1:15: 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:14 of Mova's parse database.
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