Esther 8:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness and joy, a feast and a good day.
Who acts: commandment, Jews, king · What happens: come, have, command, decree · To what, where: gladness, province · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Esther 8:17 · 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 (commandment, Jews, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 province | case |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 province | det |
| 4 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 11 | whithersoever | whithersoever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 came | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 commandment | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 decree | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 decree | nmod:poss |
| 18 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 commandment | conj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 had | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Jews | det |
| 22 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 joy | cc |
| 26 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gladness | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 feast | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 feast | det |
| 29 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gladness | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 day | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 day | det |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 day | amod |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gladness | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king's commandment and commandment's decree | whithersoever property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Jews | gladness and joy and a feast and a good day | every province | in every city | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gladness=Patient | ||
| 3 | command | the king | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | decree | commandment | nom decree «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
וּבְכָל־מְדִינָ֨ה וּמְדִינָ֜ה וּבְכָל־עִ֣יר וָעִ֗יר מְקוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֨ר דְּבַר־הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ וְדָתוֹ֙ מַגִּ֔יעַ שִׂמְחָ֤ה וְשָׂשׂוֹן֙ לַיְּהוּדִ֔ים מִשְׁתֶּ֖ה וְי֣וֹם ט֑וֹב וְרַבִּ֞ים מֵֽעַמֵּ֤י הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ מִֽתְיַהֲדִ֔ים כִּֽי־נָפַ֥ל פַּֽחַד־הַיְּהוּדִ֖ים עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃
Esther 8:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness and joy, a feast and a good day.
- And many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen upon them.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EST:144 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.144/