Esther 3:8 · JPS 1917

And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus: 'There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from those of every people; neither keep they the king's laws; therefore it profiteth not the king to suffer them.

Who acts: Haman, certain people, laws, people, kingdom, king · What happens: say, be, scatter, disperse, keep, not profit · To what, where: certain people, provinces, those, laws · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Esther 3:8 · 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 (Haman, certain people, laws, people), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	Haman	Haman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 king	case
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	Ahasuerus	Ahasuerus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 king	flat
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
9	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 people	det
12	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 is	nsubj
14	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 people	acl
15	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	14 scattered	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dispersed	cc
17	dispersed	disperse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 scattered	conj
18	among	among	ADP	_	20 peoples	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 peoples	det
20	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dispersed	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 provinces	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 provinces	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 provinces	det
24	provinces	province	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dispersed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 kingdom	case
26	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 kingdom	nmod:poss
27	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 provinces	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 diverse	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 diverse	cc
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 laws	nmod:poss
31	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 diverse	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 diverse	cop
33	diverse	diverse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 those	case
35	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 diverse	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 people	case
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 people	det
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 those	nmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 keep	punct
40	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	41 keep	cc
41	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 keep	nsubj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 king	det
44	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 laws	nmod:poss
45	's	's	PART	_	44 king	case
46	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 keep	obj
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 profiteth	punct
48	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	50 profiteth	advmod
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 profiteth	nsubj
50	profiteth	profit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 profiteth	advmod
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 king	det
53	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 suffer	nsubj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 suffer	mark
55	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 profiteth	xcomp
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 suffer	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Haman			unto king	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	does	present	a certain people		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scatter	participle		a certain people not said here		abroad property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
4	disperse	participle			all provinces of thy kingdom	among the peoples	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	present	people's laws		those	diverse property	tree rules
6	keep	infinitive	people	the king's laws			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme
7	not profit	present	kingdom			therefore property	tree rules
8	suffer	to-infinitive	the king	laws = law			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הָמָן֙ לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ יֶשְׁנ֣וֹ עַם־אֶחָ֗ד מְפֻזָּ֤ר וּמְפֹרָד֙ בֵּ֣ין הָֽעַמִּ֔ים בְּכֹ֖ל מְדִינ֣וֹת מַלְכוּתֶ֑ךָ וְדָתֵיהֶ֞ם שֹׁנ֣וֹת מִכָּל־עָ֗ם וְאֶת־דָּתֵ֤י הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֵינָ֣ם עֹשִׂ֔ים וְלַמֶּ֥לֶךְ אֵין־שֹׁוֶ֖ה לְהַנִּיחָֽם׃

Esther 3:8: 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:55 of Mova's parse database.

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