Esther 1:8 · JPS 1917

And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel; for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.

Who acts: drinking, none, king, hangings, man · What happens: be, compel, appoint, do, please

This is Esther 1:8 · 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 (drinking, none, king, hangings), 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 law	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drinking	det
3	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 law	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 law	cop
5	according	according	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 law	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 according	fixed
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 law	det
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 compel	punct
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 compel	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 compel	aux
12	compel	compel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 law	parataxis
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 appointed	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 appointed	mark
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 appointed	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 appointed	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 appointed	aux
19	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 compel	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 officers	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 officers	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 officers	det
23	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 appointed	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 house	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 house	nmod:poss
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 officers	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 do	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 appointed	ccomp
32	according	according	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	37 pleasure	case
33	to	to	ADP	_	32 according	fixed
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pleasure	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 man	case
37	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 law	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the drinking	according the law	tree rules
2	compel	past · do-support	none		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	appoint	past · perfect	the king	to all officers of king's house	tree rules
4	do	should	hangings = hanging	according every man's pleasure	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	please		every man		nom pleasure «feeling 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

וְהַשְּׁתִיָּ֥ה כַדָּ֖ת אֵ֣ין אֹנֵ֑ס כִּי־כֵ֣ן ׀ יִסַּ֣ד הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ עַ֚ל כָּל־רַ֣ב בֵּית֔וֹ לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת כִּרְצ֥וֹן אִישׁ־וָאִֽישׁ׃

Esther 1:8: 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:7 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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