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title: Esther 6:12 (JPS 1917) — But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered. · tree and pragmatics
description: But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered. Who acts: Haman, head. Esther 6:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 6:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

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**Who acts:** Haman, head · **What happens:** haste, mourn, have, cover · **To what, where:** head

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This is Esther 6:12 · 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 (Haman, head), 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:108
# text = But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Haman	Haman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hasted	haste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mourning	mourn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haste** | past | Haman |  |  |  |  | to Haman's house | tree rules |
| 2 | **mourn** | gerund | Haman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | Haman *not said here* | Haman's head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover** | participle | Haman's head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַיָּ֥שָׁב מָרְדֳּכַ֖י אֶל־שַׁ֣עַר הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְהָמָן֙ נִדְחַ֣ף אֶל־בֵּית֔וֹ אָבֵ֖ל וַחֲפ֥וּי רֹֽאשׁ׃

[Esther 6:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And Mordecai returned to the king's gate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.107/)
2. **But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.**

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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:108` 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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