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title: Esther 6:11 (JPS 1917) — Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him: 'Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.' Who acts: Haman, king. Esther 6:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the 
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# Esther 6:11 · JPS 1917

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Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him: 'Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.'

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**Who acts:** Haman, king · **What happens:** take, array, cause, ride, proclaim, do · **To what, where:** apparel, Mordecai, Haman, street, horse, man

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This is Esther 6:11 · 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 (Haman, 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:106
# text = Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him: 'Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Haman	Haman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	apparel	apparel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	arrayed	array	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
32	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	ccomp	_	_
37	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	obj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	delighteth	delight	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	honour	honour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Haman | the apparel and the horse |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apparel=Theme |
| 2 | **array** | past | Haman *not said here* | Mordecai |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | past | Haman *not said here* | Haman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ride** | to-infinitive | Haman *not said here* |  |  | the street of the city |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through street=Trajectory |
| 5 | **proclaim** | past | Haman *not said here* |  |  |  | before Haman |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** | shall · passive |  | horse |  |  |  | unto the man; thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **delight** | present | the king | the man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **honour** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וַיִּקַּ֤ח הָמָן֙ אֶת־הַלְּב֣וּשׁ וְאֶת־הַסּ֔וּס וַיַּלְבֵּ֖שׁ אֶֽת־מָרְדֳּכָ֑י וַיַּרְכִּיבֵ֙הוּ֙ בִּרְח֣וֹב הָעִ֔יר וַיִּקְרָ֣א לְפָנָ֔יו כָּ֚כָה יֵעָשֶׂ֣ה לָאִ֔ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ חָפֵ֥ץ בִּיקָרֽוֹ׃

[Esther 6:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.11/)

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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:106` 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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