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title: Esther 6:6 (JPS 1917) — And the king said unto him: 'What shall be done unto the man whom th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king said unto him: 'What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour?' — Now Haman said in his heart: 'Whom would the king delight to honour besides myself?' — Who acts: king, Haman. Esther 6:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 6:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And the king said unto him: 'What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour?' — Now Haman said in his heart: 'Whom would the king delight to honour besides myself?' —

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**Who acts:** king, Haman · **What happens:** say, do, delight, honour · **To what, where:** man, heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Esther 6:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, Haman), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:EST:101
# text = And the king said unto him: 'What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour?' — Now Haman said in his heart: 'Whom would the king delight to honour besides myself?' —
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	delighteth	delight	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	honour	honour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
26	Haman	Haman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
33	Whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	delight	delight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	honour	honour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obl	_	_
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
44	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  | unto Haman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | shall · passive |  |  |  |  |  | unto the man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **delight** | present | the king | the man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **honour** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Haman |  |  | Haman's heart | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **delight** | would | the king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **honour** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | besides myself | tree rules |

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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 {#hebrew}

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וַיָּבוֹא֮ הָמָן֒ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ מַה־לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת בָּאִ֕ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ חָפֵ֣ץ בִּיקָר֑וֹ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הָמָן֙ בְּלִבּ֔וֹ לְמִ֞י יַחְפֹּ֥ץ הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת יְקָ֖ר יוֹתֵ֥ר מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

[Esther 6:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.6/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [So Haman came in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.100/)
2. **And the king said unto him: 'What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour?' — Now Haman said in his heart: 'Whom would the king delight to honour besides myself?' —**

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EST:101` 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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