Esther 5:4 · JPS 1917
And Esther said: 'If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.'
Who acts: Esther, it, king, I · What happens: say, seem, let, come, prepare · To what, where: king, banquet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Esther 5:4 · 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 (Esther, it, king, I), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Esther | Esther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 6 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 seem | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seem | nsubj |
| 8 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | advcl |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seem | xcomp |
| 10 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seem | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seem | punct |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Haman | cc |
| 18 | Haman | Haman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 king | conj |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 24 banquet | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 banquet | det |
| 24 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 prepared | obj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 prepared | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 prepared | aux |
| 28 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 banquet | acl:relcl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 prepared | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Esther | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seem a condition, not said to happen | present | it | unto the king; good property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the king and Haman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | the king and Haman not said here | day | unto the banquet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | prepare | present · perfect | I | the banquet | for king | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Product for he=Beneficiary |
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
וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֶסְתֵּ֔ר אִם־עַל־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ ט֑וֹב יָב֨וֹא הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ וְהָמָן֙ הַיּ֔וֹם אֶל־הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֥יתִי לֽוֹ׃
Esther 5:4: 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:84 of Mova's parse database.
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