Esther 4:5 · JPS 1917

Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was.

Who acts: Esther, king, this, sackcloth · What happens: call, appoint, attend, charge, go, know · To what, where: Hathach, king, Mordecai · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Esther 4:5 · 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 (Esther, king, this, sackcloth), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 called	advmod
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Esther	Esther	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 Hathach	case
5	Hathach	Hathach	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Hathach	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 chamberlains	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chamberlains	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chamberlains	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	chamberlains	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 appointed	punct
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 appointed	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 appointed	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 appointed	aux
17	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 Hathach	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 attend	mark
19	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 appointed	xcomp
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 attend	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 charged	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 charged	cc
24	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 charged	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 charged	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Mordecai	case
29	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 know	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 know	mark
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	advcl
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 know	ccomp
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 what	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 what	cop
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 was	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 was	cc
38	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	40 was	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 was	nsubj
40	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 what	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	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	call	past	Esther			then	for Hathach	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for hathach=Recipient
2	appoint	past · perfect	king	Hathach				tree rules
3	attend	to-infinitive	king not said here				upon Esther	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme
4	charge	past	Esther not said here	king				tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive	Esther not said here		Mordecai			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mordecai=Initial_Location
6	know	to-infinitive	Esther not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	past	this					tree rules
8	be	past	sackcloth					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

וַתִּקְרָא֩ אֶסְתֵּ֨ר לַהֲתָ֜ךְ מִסָּרִיסֵ֤י הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הֶעֱמִ֣יד לְפָנֶ֔יהָ וַתְּצַוֵּ֖הוּ עַֽל־מָרְדֳּכָ֑י לָדַ֥עַת מַה־זֶּ֖ה וְעַל־מַה־זֶּֽה׃

Esther 4:5: 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:67 of Mova's parse database.

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