Esther 5:3 · JPS 1917

Then said the king unto her: 'What wilt thou, queen Esther? for whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be given thee.'

Who acts: king, thy · What happens: say, give, request · To what, where: request · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Esther 5:3 · 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 (king, thy), 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 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 wilt	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 wilt	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 wilt	obj
10	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 wilt	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 queen	punct
13	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wilt	vocative
14	Esther	Esther	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 queen	flat
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 wilt	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 whatever	case
17	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 given	obl
18	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 request	nmod:poss
19	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whatever	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 half	punct
21	even	even	ADV	_	24 half	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 half	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 half	det
24	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 request	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 kingdom	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 kingdom	det
27	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 half	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 half	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 given	nsubj:pass
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 given	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 given	aux:pass
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wilt	parataxis
33	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 given	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king		then	unto Esther	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	give	shall · passive		request		for whatever	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient thou=Theme for whatever=Asset
3	request		thy			to the half of the kingdom	nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהּ֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ מַה־לָּ֖ךְ אֶסְתֵּ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֑ה וּמַה־בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֛ךְ עַד־חֲצִ֥י הַמַּלְכ֖וּת וְיִנָּ֥תֵֽן לָֽךְ׃

Esther 5:3: 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:83 of Mova's parse database.

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