Esther 3:3 · JPS 1917

Then the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai: 'Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?'

Who acts: servants, thou, king · What happens: be, say, transgress, command · To what, where: gate, commandment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Esther 3:3 · 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, thou, king), 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	15 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 servants	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gate	punct
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 gate	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gate	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 gate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gate	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 servants	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 servants	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	unto	unto	ADP	_	17 Mordecai	case
17	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 transgressest	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 transgressest	punct
20	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 transgressest	advmod
21	transgressest	transgress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
22	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 transgressest	nsubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 commandment	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 king	case
26	commandment	commandment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 transgressest	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 transgressest	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 transgressest	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king's servants		the king's gate			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the king's servants			then	unto Mordecai	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	transgress	present	thou	the king's commandment				tree rules
4	command		the king					nom commandment «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

וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ עַבְדֵ֥י הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֲשֶׁר־בְּשַׁ֥עַר הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑י מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ אַתָּ֣ה עוֹבֵ֔ר אֵ֖ת מִצְוַ֥ת הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Esther 3:3: 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:50 of Mova's parse database.

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