Esther 2:4 · JPS 1917
and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti.' And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
Who acts: you, maiden, thing · What happens: let, please, be · To what, where: maiden, king, queen
This is Esther 2:4 · 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 (you, maiden, thing), 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 | _ | 2 let | cc |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 let | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 pleaseth | nsubj |
| 6 | pleaseth | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleaseth | obj |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 queen | cop |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 let | ccomp |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 13 Vashti | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instead | fixed |
| 13 | Vashti | Vashti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 queen | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 queen | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pleased | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pleased | nsubj |
| 19 | pleased | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pleased | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 did | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 did | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 did | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pleased | conj |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 did | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | the maiden | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | ||||
| 2 | please | present | the maiden | the king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | you not said here | queen | instead Vashti | tree rules | |||
| 4 | please | past | the thing | the king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer |
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
וְהַֽנַּעֲרָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר תִּיטַב֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ תִּמְלֹ֖ךְ תַּ֣חַת וַשְׁתִּ֑י וַיִּיטַ֧ב הַדָּבָ֛ר בְּעֵינֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וַיַּ֥עַשׂ כֵּֽן׃ס
Esther 2:4: 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:26 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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