Esther 9:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And the king said unto Esther the queen: 'The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the castle, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces!
Who acts: king, Jews · What happens: say, slay, destroy, do · To what, where: hundred men, Shushan, rest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Esther 9:12 · 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, Jews), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 Esther | case |
| 6 | Esther | Esther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Esther | appos |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 slain | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 slain | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Jews | det |
| 12 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 slain | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 slain | aux |
| 14 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 destroyed | cc |
| 16 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 slain | conj |
| 17 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 hundred | nummod |
| 18 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 men | nummod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 destroyed | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Shushan | case |
| 21 | Shushan | Shushan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 men | nmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Shushan | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sons | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sons | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sons | det |
| 27 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 sons | nummod |
| 28 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 men | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Haman | case |
| 30 | Haman | Haman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sons | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 done | punct |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 done | obj |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 done | advmod |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 done | aux |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 done | nsubj |
| 36 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | parataxis |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 rest | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rest | det |
| 39 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 done | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 provinces | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 king | det |
| 42 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 provinces | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 king | case |
| 44 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 rest | nmod |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 done | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed form=excl, act=express
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | unto Esther | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | slay | present · perfect | the Jews | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | destroy | participle | the Jews not said here | hundred men and the ten sons of Haman | Shushan | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||
| 4 | do | present · perfect | Jews = jew | the rest of the king's provinces | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ לְאֶסְתֵּ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֗ה בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַבִּירָ֡ה הָרְגוּ֩ הַיְּהוּדִ֨ים וְאַבֵּ֜ד חֲמֵ֧שׁ מֵא֣וֹת אִ֗ישׁ וְאֵת֙ עֲשֶׂ֣רֶת בְּנֵֽי־הָמָ֔ן בִּשְׁאָ֛ר מְדִינ֥וֹת הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מֶ֣ה עָשׂ֑וּ וּמַה־שְּׁאֵֽלָתֵךְ֙ וְיִנָּ֣תֵֽן לָ֔ךְ וּמַה־בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֥ךְ ע֖וֹד וְתֵעָֽשׂ׃
Esther 9:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And the king said unto Esther the queen: 'The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the castle, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces!
- Now whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request further, it shall be done.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EST:157 of Mova's parse database.
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