Esther 3:13 · JPS 1917

And letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

Who acts: posts, Jews, twelfth month · What happens: send, destroy, slay, cause, perish, be · To what, where: letters, provinces, Jews, month, spoil

This is Esther 3:13 · 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 (posts, Jews, twelfth month), 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	_	4 sent	cc
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 posts	case
6	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	12 provinces	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 provinces	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 provinces	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	provinces	province	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 destroy	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 destroy	mark
15	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 slay	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 slay	mark
18	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 destroy	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cause	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cause	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 cause	mark
22	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 destroy	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 perish	mark
24	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cause	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Jews	punct
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 Jews	det
27	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 cause	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 young	punct
29	both	both	CCONJ	_	30 young	cc:preconj
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Jews	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 old	cc
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 young	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 children	punct
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Jews	amod
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Jews	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 women	cc
37	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 children	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 day	punct
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 day	case
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 day	nummod
41	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cause	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 day	punct
43	even	even	ADV	_	47 day	advmod
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	47 day	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 day	det
46	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	47 day	amod
47	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cause	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 month	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 month	det
50	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	51 month	amod
51	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 day	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 month	punct
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 month	nsubj
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 month	cop
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 month	det
56	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 month	acl:relcl
57	Adar	Adar	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 month	appos
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 take	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 take	cc
60	to	to	PART	_	61 take	mark
61	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 destroy	conj
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 spoil	det
63	spoil	spoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 take	obj
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 them	case
65	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 spoil	nmod
66	for	for	ADP	_	68 prey	case
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 prey	det
68	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 take	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	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	send	past · passive	posts	letters	the king's provinces			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	destroy	to-infinitive	posts not said here					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	slay	to-infinitive	posts not said here					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cause	to-infinitive	posts not said here	all Jews and children and women		day		tree rules
5	perish	to-infinitive	all Jews and children and women not said here					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	is a	present	the twelfth month	the month				tree rules
7	take	to-infinitive	posts not said here	the spoil of provinces			for a prey	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme for prey=Beneficiary
8	spoil			provinces = province				nom spoil «possession transitive»: of=patient

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

וְנִשְׁל֨וֹחַ סְפָרִ֜ים בְּיַ֣ד הָרָצִים֮ אֶל־כָּל־מְדִינ֣וֹת הַמֶּלֶךְ֒ לְהַשְׁמִ֡יד לַהֲרֹ֣ג וּלְאַבֵּ֣ד אֶת־כָּל־הַ֠יְּהוּדִים מִנַּ֨עַר וְעַד־זָקֵ֜ן טַ֤ף וְנָשִׁים֙ בְּי֣וֹם אֶחָ֔ד בִּשְׁלוֹשָׁ֥ה עָשָׂ֛ר לְחֹ֥דֶשׁ שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֖ר הוּא־חֹ֣דֶשׁ אֲדָ֑ר וּשְׁלָלָ֖ם לָבֽוֹז׃

Esther 3:13: 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:60 of Mova's parse database.

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