Esther 1:16 · JPS 1917
And Memucan answered before the king and the princes: 'Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the peoples, that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
Who acts: Memucan, Vashti, peoples · What happens: answer, not do, be · To what, where: wrong, provinces · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Esther 1:16 · 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 (Memucan, Vashti, peoples), 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 answered | cc |
| 2 | Memucan | Memucan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 princes | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princes | det |
| 9 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 king | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 12 | Vashti | Vashti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 done | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Vashti | appos |
| 15 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 done | advmod |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 18 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 done | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 king | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | obl |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 king | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 princes | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 princes | cc |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 princes | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 princes | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 princes | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 princes | det |
| 29 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 done | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 peoples | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 peoples | cc |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 peoples | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 peoples | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 peoples | det |
| 35 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 princes | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 provinces | punct |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 provinces | nsubj |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 provinces | cop |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 provinces | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 provinces | det:predet |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 provinces | det |
| 42 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 peoples | acl:relcl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 king | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 king | det |
| 45 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 provinces | nmod |
| 46 | Ahasuerus | Ahasuerus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 king | flat |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Memucan | before the king and the princes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do | present · perfect | Vashti | wrong | to the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is | present | all peoples | all provinces | of the king | tree rules |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מְמוּכָ֗ן לִפְנֵ֤י הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ וְהַשָּׂרִ֔ים לֹ֤א עַל־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ לְבַדּ֔וֹ עָוְתָ֖ה וַשְׁתִּ֣י הַמַּלְכָּ֑ה כִּ֤י עַל־כָּל־הַשָּׂרִים֙ וְעַל־כָּל־הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֕ר בְּכָל־מְדִינ֖וֹת הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵרֽוֹשׁ׃
Esther 1:16: 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:15 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.
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