Esther 9:25 · JPS 1917

but when she came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head; and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Who acts: Haman, king, device, wicked device · What happens: come, command, devise, return, hang · To what, where: wicked device, device, gallows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Esther 9:25 · 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 (Haman, king, device, wicked device), 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	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 commanded	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 commanded	advcl
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 commanded	nsubj
10	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 letters	case
12	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 commanded	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 commanded	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 device	nmod:poss
15	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 device	amod
16	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 return	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 devised	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 devised	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 devised	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 devised	aux
21	devised	devise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 device	acl:relcl
22	against	against	ADP	_	24 Jews	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Jews	det
24	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 devised	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 device	punct
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 return	aux
27	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 commanded	ccomp
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 head	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 head	amod
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 return	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 hanged	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 hanged	cc
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 hanged	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 hanged	nsubj:pass
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sons	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 sons	nmod:poss
38	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 he	conj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 hanged	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 hanged	aux:pass
41	hanged	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 return	conj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 gallows	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 gallows	det
44	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 hanged	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Haman			before the king		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before king=Location
2	command	past	king				by letters	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	devise	past · perfect	device	king's wicked device			against the Jews	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	return	should	king's wicked device				upon king's own head	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hang	should · passive		device	the gallows			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on gallows=Destination

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

וּבְבֹאָהּ֮ לִפְנֵ֣י הַמֶּלֶךְ֒ אָמַ֣ר עִם־הַסֵּ֔פֶר יָשׁ֞וּב מַחֲשַׁבְתּ֧וֹ הָרָעָ֛ה אֲשֶׁר־חָשַׁ֥ב עַל־הַיְּהוּדִ֖ים עַל־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וְתָל֥וּ אֹת֛וֹ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֖יו עַל־הָעֵֽץ׃

Esther 9:25: 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:171 of Mova's parse database.

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