Esther 1:19 · JPS 1917
If it please the king, let there go forth a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus, and that the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
Who acts: wrath, you, Vashti, king · What happens: please, let, go, write, not alter, come · To what, where: king, royal commandment, wrath, king Ahasuerus, royal estate
This is Esther 1:19 · 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 (wrath, you, Vashti, king), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 please | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 please | nsubj |
| 3 | please | please | VERB | Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 please | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 please | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | _ | 9 go | expl |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | ccomp |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 commandment | det |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 commandment | amod |
| 13 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 commandment | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 written | aux:pass |
| 21 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 let | xcomp |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 laws | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 laws | det |
| 24 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 written | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Persians | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Persians | det |
| 27 | Persians | Persian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 laws | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Medes | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Medes | det |
| 30 | Medes | mede | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 Persians | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 altered | punct |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 altered | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 altered | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 altered | aux:pass |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 altered | advmod |
| 36 | altered | alter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 written | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 come | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 come | mark |
| 39 | Vashti | Vashti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 come | nsubj |
| 40 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin | 36 altered | advcl |
| 41 | no | no | ADV | _ | 42 more | advmod |
| 42 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 come | advmod |
| 43 | before | before | ADP | _ | 45 Ahasuerus | case |
| 44 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Ahasuerus | compound |
| 45 | Ahasuerus | Ahasuerus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 come | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 give | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 give | cc |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 51 give | mark |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 king | det |
| 50 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 give | nsubj |
| 51 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin | 40 come | conj |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 estate | nmod:poss |
| 53 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 estate | amod |
| 54 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 give | obj |
| 55 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 56 another | case |
| 56 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 51 give | obl |
| 57 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 59 better | nsubj |
| 58 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 better | cop |
| 59 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 56 another | acl:relcl |
| 60 | than | than | ADP | _ | 61 she | case |
| 61 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 better | obl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request, form=imp, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please a condition, not said to happen | present | wrath | the king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | you not said here | a royal commandment | there | forth property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location commandment=Theme | ||
| 4 | let | infinitive | you not said here | wrath | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | write | infinitive · passive | wrath not said here | among the laws of the Persians and the Medes | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 6 | not alter | infinitive · passive | wrath | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | come | present | Vashti | king Ahasuerus | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before ahasuerus=Location | ||||
| 8 | give | present | the king | Vashti's royal estate | unto another | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estate=Theme | |||
| 9 | is | present | than Vashti; good property | 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
אִם־עַל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ ט֗וֹב יֵצֵ֤א דְבַר־מַלְכוּת֙ מִלְּפָנָ֔יו וְיִכָּתֵ֛ב בְּדָתֵ֥י פָֽרַס־וּמָדַ֖י וְלֹ֣א יַעֲב֑וֹר אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹֽא־תָב֜וֹא וַשְׁתִּ֗י לִפְנֵי֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ וּמַלְכוּתָהּ֙ יִתֵּ֣ן הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לִרְעוּתָ֖הּ הַטּוֹבָ֥ה מִמֶּֽנָּה׃
Esther 1:19: 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:19 of Mova's parse database.
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