--- title: Esther 6:8 (JPS 1917) — let royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the h… · tree and pragmatics description: let royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and on whose head a crown royal is set; Who acts: you, royal apparel, king. 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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 (you, royal apparel, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:EST:103 # text = let royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and on whose head a crown royal is set; 1 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 apparel apparel NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 xcomp _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 useth use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 wear wear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 rideth ride VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | royal apparel and the horse | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | infinitive · passive | royal apparel and the horse *not said here* | | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» | | 3 | **use** | present | the king | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **wear** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source | | 5 | **ride** | present | the king | | | | | upon the horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **set** | present · passive | | a crown | | head | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on head=Destination | 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} יָבִ֙יאוּ֙ לְב֣וּשׁ מַלְכ֔וּת אֲשֶׁ֥ר לָֽבַשׁ־בּ֖וֹ הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְס֗וּס אֲשֶׁ֨ר רָכַ֤ב עָלָיו֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר נִתַּ֛ן כֶּ֥תֶר מַלְכ֖וּת בְּרֹאשֽׁוֹ׃ [Esther 6:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EST:103` 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. - ← previous: [Esther 6:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.102/) - next →: [Esther 6:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.104/) - ↑ back to [Esther 6:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.8/)