Esther 4:4 · JPS 1917

And Esther's maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly pained; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai; and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he accepted it not.

Who acts: maidens, Esther, Mordecai · What happens: come, tell, pain, send, clothe, take · To what, where: sackcloth, Esther, queen, raiment, Mordecai · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Esther 4:4 · 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 (maidens, Esther, Mordecai), 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	_	8 came	cc
2	Esther	Esther	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 maidens	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Esther	case
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 chamberlains	cc
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chamberlains	nmod:poss
7	chamberlains	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 maidens	conj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	obj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 pained	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pained	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 queen	det
16	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pained	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pained	aux:pass
18	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	19 pained	advmod
19	pained	pain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 came	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sent	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sent	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sent	nsubj
23	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
24	raiment	raiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 clothe	mark
26	clothe	clothe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sent	advcl
27	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 clothe	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 take	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 take	mark
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sent	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sackcloth	nmod:poss
33	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 him	case
35	off	off	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 take	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 accepted	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 accepted	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 accepted	nsubj
40	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 accepted	obj
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 accepted	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Esther's maidens and Esther's chamberlains				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Esther's maidens and Esther's chamberlains not said here	sackcloth	Esther		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient it=Topic
3	pain	past · passive		the queen		exceedingly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	send	past	Esther	raiment			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raiment=Theme
5	clothe	to-infinitive	Esther not said here	Mordecai			vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mordecai=Patient
6	take	to-infinitive	Esther not said here	Mordecai's sackcloth		from Mordecai	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sackcloth=Theme from he=Initial_Location
7	not accept	past	Mordecai	sackcloth			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

וַ֠תָּבוֹאינָהנַעֲר֨וֹת אֶסְתֵּ֤ר וְסָרִיסֶ֙יהָ֙ וַיַּגִּ֣ידוּ לָ֔הּ וַתִּתְחַלְחַ֥ל הַמַּלְכָּ֖ה מְאֹ֑ד וַתִּשְׁלַ֨ח בְּגָדִ֜ים לְהַלְבִּ֣ישׁ אֶֽת־מָרְדֳּכַ֗י וּלְהָסִ֥יר שַׂקּ֛וֹ מֵעָלָ֖יו וְלֹ֥א קִבֵּֽל׃

Esther 4:4: 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:66 of Mova's parse database.

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