Esther 2:21 · JPS 1917

in those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those that kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

Who acts: Mordecai, two · What happens: sit, keep, be, seek, lay · To what, where: gate, door, hands

This is Esther 2:21 · 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 (Mordecai, two), 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	in	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 wroth	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 two	punct
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 sat	mark
6	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 wroth	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gate	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 two	punct
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 wroth	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 chamberlains	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chamberlains	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 king	case
19	chamberlains	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 two	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Bigthan	punct
21	Bigthan	Bigthan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 chamberlains	appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Teresh	cc
23	Teresh	Teresh	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Bigthan	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 those	punct
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 those	case
26	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 Bigthan	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 kept	nsubj
28	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 those	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kept	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 those	punct
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 wroth	cop
33	wroth	wroth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sought	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sought	cc
36	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 wroth	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 lay	mark
38	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 sought	xcomp
39	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 lay	obj
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 king	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 king	det
42	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lay	obl
43	Ahasuerus	Ahasuerus	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 king	appos
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 wroth	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Mordecai		the king's gate			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gate=Location
2	keep	past		the door				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
3	is	past	two of the king's chamberlains			day	wroth property	tree rules
4	seek	past	two of the king's chamberlains not said here					tree rules
5	lay not said to happen	to-infinitive	two of the king's chamberlains not said here	hands			on the king	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on king=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

בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם וּמָרְדֳּכַ֖י יֹשֵׁ֣ב בְּשַֽׁעַר־הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ קָצַף֩ בִּגְתָ֨ן וָתֶ֜רֶשׁ שְׁנֵֽי־סָרִיסֵ֤י הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ מִשֹּׁמְרֵ֣י הַסַּ֔ף וַיְבַקְשׁוּ֙ לִשְׁלֹ֣חַ יָ֔ד בַּמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵֽרֹשׁ׃

Esther 2:21: 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:44 of Mova's parse database.

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