Esther 1:17 · JPS 1917
For this deed of the queen will come abroad unto all women, to make their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when it will be said: The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
Who acts: king, Vashti · What happens: come, make, say, command, bring in, not come · To what, where: husbands, eyes, deed, Vashti · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Esther 1:17 · 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, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 deed | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 deed | det |
| 3 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 queen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deed | nmod |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 12 women | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 women | det |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | contemptible | contemptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 make | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 said | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | aux:pass |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 make | advcl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 commanded | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 commanded | nsubj |
| 31 | Ahasuerus | Ahasuerus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 king | appos |
| 32 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | ccomp |
| 33 | Vashti | Vashti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 commanded | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 queen | det |
| 35 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Vashti | appos |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 brought | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 brought | aux:pass |
| 38 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 commanded | xcomp |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 brought | compound:prt |
| 40 | before | before | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 brought | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 came | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 came | cc |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 came | nsubj |
| 45 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 commanded | conj |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 came | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | for this deed of the queen; unto all women; abroad property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | women's husbands | husbands's eyes | contemptible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset husband=Product | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | future · passive | deed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | command | past | the king | Vashti | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent vashti=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | bring in not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | before king | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 6 | not come | past | Vashti | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
כִּֽי־יֵצֵ֤א דְבַר־הַמַּלְכָּה֙ עַל־כָּל־הַנָּשִׁ֔ים לְהַבְז֥וֹת בַּעְלֵיהֶ֖ן בְּעֵינֵיהֶ֑ן בְּאָמְרָ֗ם הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֡וֹשׁ אָמַ֞ר לְהָבִ֨יא אֶת־וַשְׁתִּ֧י הַמַּלְכָּ֛ה לְפָנָ֖יו וְלֹא־בָֽאָה׃
Esther 1:17: 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:16 of Mova's parse database.
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