Esther 6:1 · JPS 1917
On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
Who acts: king · What happens: not sleep, command, bring, read, record · To what, where: book, chronicles · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Esther 6:1 · 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), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleep | obl |
| 4 | could | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sleep | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sleep | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleep | nsubj |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 commanded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 commanded | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 commanded | nsubj |
| 12 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sleep | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 bring | mark |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 commanded | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 book | det |
| 16 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 records | case |
| 18 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 book | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 chronicles | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chronicles | det |
| 21 | chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 records | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 read | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 read | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 read | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 read | aux:pass |
| 26 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sleep | conj |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 king | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 read | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sleep | can | the king | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | command | past | king | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | the book of records of the chronicles | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 4 | read | past · passive | chronicles = chronicle | before the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 5 | record | the chronicles | nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
בַּלַּ֣יְלָה הַה֔וּא נָדְדָ֖ה שְׁנַ֣ת הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לְהָבִ֞יא אֶת־סֵ֤פֶר הַזִּכְרֹנוֹת֙ דִּבְרֵ֣י הַיָּמִ֔ים וַיִּהְי֥וּ נִקְרָאִ֖ים לִפְנֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃
Esther 6:1: 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:95 of Mova's parse database.
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