Esther 9:20 · JPS 1917

And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,

Who acts: Mordecai, Jews · What happens: write, send, be · To what, where: things, letters, provinces

This is Esther 9:20 · 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 (Mordecai, 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	_	3 wrote	cc
2	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 things	det
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wrote	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sent	cc
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrote	conj
9	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sent	obj
10	unto	unto	ADP	_	13 Jews	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 Jews	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Jews	det
13	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 letters	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 provinces	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 provinces	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 provinces	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 provinces	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 provinces	det
19	provinces	province	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Jews	acl:relcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 king	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 provinces	nmod
23	Ahasuerus	Ahasuerus	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 king	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 nigh	punct
25	both	both	CCONJ	_	26 nigh	cc:preconj
26	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	13 Jews	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 far	cc
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 nigh	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	past	Mordecai	this things			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	send	past	Mordecai not said here	letters			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
3	is	past	all Jews		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

וַיִּכְתֹּ֣ב מָרְדֳּכַ֔י אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח סְפָרִ֜ים אֶל־כָּל־הַיְּהוּדִ֗ים אֲשֶׁר֙ בְּכָל־מְדִינוֹת֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ הַקְּרוֹבִ֖ים וְהָרְחוֹקִֽים׃

Esther 9:20: 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:166 of Mova's parse database.

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