Esther 1:6 · JPS 1917

there were hangings of white, fine cotton, and blue, bordered with cords of fine linen and purple, upon silver rods and pillars of marble; the couches were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of green, and white, and shell, and onyx marble.

Who acts: hangings, couches · What happens: be, border · To what, where: hangings

This is Esther 1:6 · 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 (hangings, couches), 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 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hangings	hanging	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 white	case
5	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hangings	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cotton	punct
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cotton	amod
8	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blue	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blue	cc
11	blue	blue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bordered	punct
13	bordered	border	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hangings	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 cords	case
15	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bordered	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 linen	case
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 linen	amod
18	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cords	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 purple	cc
20	purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 linen	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rods	punct
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 rods	case
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rods	compound
24	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hangings	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pillars	cc
26	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rods	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 marble	case
28	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pillars	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 gold	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 couches	det
31	couches	couch	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gold	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 gold	cop
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 gold	case
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 silver	cc
36	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gold	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 pavement	punct
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 pavement	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 pavement	det
40	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gold	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 green	case
42	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pavement	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 white	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 white	cc
45	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 green	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 shell	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 shell	cc
48	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 green	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 marble	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 marble	cc
51	onyx	onyx	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 marble	compound
52	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pavement	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	hangings of white fine cotton and blue		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	border	participle		hangings of white fine cotton and blue not said here		with cords of fine linen and purple	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the couches			of gold and silver; upon a pavement of green and white and shell and onyx marble	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

ח֣וּר ׀ כַּרְפַּ֣ס וּתְכֵ֗לֶת אָחוּז֙ בְּחַבְלֵי־ב֣וּץ וְאַרְגָּמָ֔ן עַל־גְּלִ֥ילֵי כֶ֖סֶף וְעַמּ֣וּדֵי שֵׁ֑שׁ מִטּ֣וֹת ׀ זָהָ֣ב וָכֶ֗סֶף עַ֛ל רִֽצְפַ֥ת בַּהַט־וָשֵׁ֖שׁ וְדַ֥ר וְסֹחָֽרֶת׃

Esther 1:6: 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:5 of Mova's parse database.

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