Esther 9:23 · JPS 1917
And the Jews took upon them to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
Who acts: Jews, Mordecai · What happens: take, do, begin, write
This is Esther 9:23 · 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 (Jews, Mordecai), 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 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Jews | det |
| 3 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | xcomp |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 begun | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 begun | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 begun | aux |
| 12 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 do | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 written | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 written | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 written | mark |
| 16 | Mordecai | Mordecai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 written | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 written | aux |
| 18 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 begun | conj |
| 19 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 written | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Jews | upon enemies = enemy | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the Jews not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past · perfect | Jews = jew | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | write | past · perfect | Mordecai | unto Jews = jew | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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
וְקִבֵּל֙ הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־הֵחֵ֖לּוּ לַעֲשׂ֑וֹת וְאֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־כָּתַ֥ב מָרְדֳּכַ֖י אֲלֵיהֶֽם׃
Esther 9:23: 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:169 of Mova's parse database.
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