Esther 3:4 · JPS 1917

Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's words would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Who acts: commandment, servants, Mordecai, words · What happens: come, pass, speak, not hearken, tell, see · To what, where: Haman, servants, Jew · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Esther 3:4 · 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 (commandment, servants, Mordecai, words), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spoke	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 spoke	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	nsubj
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
10	daily	daily	ADV	_	9 spoke	advmod
11	unto	unto	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hearkened	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hearkened	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hearkened	nsubj
16	hearkened	hearken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spoke	conj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hearkened	advmod
18	unto	unto	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hearkened	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 told	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	ccomp
24	Haman	Haman	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 told	iobj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	advcl
28	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	33 stand	mark
29	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 words	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 Mordecai	case
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 stand	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 stand	aux
33	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 see	ccomp
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 told	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 told	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 told	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 told	aux
38	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 told	iobj
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 Jew	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 Jew	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 Jew	cop
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 Jew	det
44	Jew	jew	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 told	ccomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	commandment			now		tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	commandment not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	speak speech: other	past	servants = servant				unto Mordecai; daily property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not hearken	past	Mordecai				unto servants = servant	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	servants = servant		Haman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent haman=Recipient
6	see	to-infinitive	servants = servant not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	stand	would	Mordecai's words					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Mordecai		servants = servant			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
9	is a	past	Mordecai	a Jew				tree rules
10	word		Mordecai					nom word «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

וַיְהִ֗י כְּאָמְרָ֤ם אֵלָיו֙ י֣וֹם וָי֔וֹם וְלֹ֥א שָׁמַ֖ע אֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וַיַּגִּ֣ידוּ לְהָמָ֗ן לִרְאוֹת֙ הֲיַֽעַמְדוּ֙ דִּבְרֵ֣י מָרְדֳּכַ֔י כִּֽי־הִגִּ֥יד לָהֶ֖ם אֲשֶׁר־ה֥וּא יְהוּדִֽי׃

Esther 3:4: 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:51 of Mova's parse database.

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