Esther 3:15 · JPS 1917
The posts went forth in haste by the king's commandment, and the decree was given out in Shushan the castle; and the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.
Who acts: posts, king · What happens: go, give out, sit down, drink, perplex, command · To what, where: haste, decree, Shushan, city · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Esther 3:15 · 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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 posts | det |
| 2 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 haste | case |
| 6 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 commandment | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 commandment | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 given | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 decree | det |
| 15 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux:pass |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 given | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Shushan | case |
| 20 | Shushan | Shushan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Shushan | appos |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 sat | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sat | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sat | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Haman | cc |
| 28 | Haman | Haman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 king | conj |
| 29 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | conj |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 sat | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 drink | mark |
| 32 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 sat | advcl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 perplexed | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 perplexed | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 city | det |
| 36 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 perplexed | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Shushan | case |
| 38 | Shushan | Shushan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 city | nmod |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 perplexed | aux:pass |
| 40 | perplexed | perplex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 given | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the posts | haste | by the king's commandment; forth property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in haste=Location | |||
| 2 | give out | past · passive | the decree | Shushan | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | the king and Haman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | the king and Haman not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | perplex | past · passive | the city of Shushan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | 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
הָֽרָצִ֞ים יָצְא֤וּ דְחוּפִים֙ בִּדְבַ֣ר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְהַדָּ֥ת נִתְּנָ֖ה בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַבִּירָ֑ה וְהַמֶּ֤לֶךְ וְהָמָן֙ יָשְׁב֣וּ לִשְׁתּ֔וֹת וְהָעִ֥יר שׁוּשָׁ֖ן נָבֽוֹכָה׃פ
Esther 3:15: 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:62 of Mova's parse database.
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