Esther 2:2 · JPS 1917

Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him: 'Let there be sought for the king young virgins fair to look on;

Who acts: servants · What happens: say, minister, let, seek, look on · To what, where: young virgins · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Esther 2:2 · 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 (servants), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 servants	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ministered	nsubj
8	ministered	minister	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 servants	acl:relcl
9	unto	unto	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ministered	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Let	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 Let	punct
13	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 sought	expl
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 sought	aux:pass
16	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 Let	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 king	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sought	obl
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 virgins	amod
21	virgins	virgin	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sought	obj
22	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 virgins	amod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 fair	advcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	24 look	compound:prt
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king's servants			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	minister	past	the king's servants				unto king	tree rules
3	let	infinitive						tree rules
4	seek	infinitive · passive		young virgins	there		for the king	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: virgin=Location for king=Theme
5	look on	to-infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ נַעֲרֵֽי־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מְשָׁרְתָ֑יו יְבַקְשׁ֥וּ לַמֶּ֛לֶךְ נְעָר֥וֹת בְּתוּל֖וֹת טוֹב֥וֹת מַרְאֶֽה׃

Esther 2:2: 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:24 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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