--- title: Esther 1:12 (JPS 1917) — But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by th… · tree and pragmatics description: But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the chamberlains; therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him. Who acts: queen, king, anger. 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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 (queen, king, anger), 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:11 # text = But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the chamberlains; therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Vashti Vashti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 chamberlains chamberlain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:agent _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 17 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 wroth wroth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** | past | the queen | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **come** | to-infinitive | the queen *not said here* | | | the king's commandment | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at commandment=Location | | 3 | **is** | past | the king | | | | | therefore, wroth *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **burn** | past | king's anger | | | | | in king | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in he=Location | | 5 | **command** | | the king | | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **anger** | | king | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַתְּמָאֵ֞ן הַמַּלְכָּ֣ה וַשְׁתִּ֗י לָבוֹא֙ בִּדְבַ֣ר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּיַ֣ד הַסָּרִיסִ֑ים וַיִּקְצֹ֤ף הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ מְאֹ֔ד וַחֲמָת֖וֹ בָּעֲרָ֥ה בֽוֹ׃ [Esther 1:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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