Esther 2:5 · JPS 1917

There was a certain Jew in Shushan the castle, whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

Who acts: certain Jew, name, Mordecai · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Mordecai

This is Esther 2:5 · 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 (certain Jew, name, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Jew	det
4	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Jew	amod
5	Jew	Jew	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Shushan	case
7	Shushan	Shushan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Jew	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Shushan	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Mordecai	punct
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Mordecai	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Mordecai	cop
14	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Shushan	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 son	det
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Mordecai	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Jair	case
18	Jair	Jair	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 son	nmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 son	det
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Jair	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Shimei	case
22	Shimei	Shimei	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 son	nmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 son	det
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Shimei	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Kish	case
26	Kish	Kish	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 son	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Benjamite	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 Benjamite	det
29	Benjamite	Benjamite	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 son	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	a certain Jew in Shushan		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Mordecai's name	Mordecai		tree rules
3	name		Mordecai			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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

אִ֣ישׁ יְהוּדִ֔י הָיָ֖ה בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַבִּירָ֑ה וּשְׁמ֣וֹ מָרְדֳּכַ֗י בֶּ֣ן יָאִ֧יר בֶּן־שִׁמְעִ֛י בֶּן־קִ֖ישׁ אִ֥ישׁ יְמִינִֽי׃

Esther 2:5: 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:27 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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