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title: Esther 6:14 (JPS 1917) — While they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains,… · tree and pragmatics
description: While they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hastened to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared. Who acts: Zeresh, chamberlains, Esther. Esther 6:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 6:14 · JPS 1917

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While they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hastened to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.

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**Who acts:** Zeresh, chamberlains, Esther · **What happens:** talk, come, hasten, bring, prepare · **To what, where:** Haman, banquet

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This is Esther 6:14 · 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 (Zeresh, chamberlains, Esther), 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:111
# text = While they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hastened to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	chamberlains	chamberlain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	Haman	Haman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
24	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past · progressive | Zeresh |  |  |  | yet | with Haman | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | the king's chamberlains |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hasten** | past | the king's chamberlains *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the king's chamberlains *not said here* |  | Haman |  |  | unto the banquet | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument haman=Destination |
| 5 | **prepare** | past · perfect | Esther | the banquet |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |

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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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עוֹדָם֙ מְדַבְּרִ֣ים עִמּ֔וֹ וְסָרִיסֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ הִגִּ֑יעוּ וַיַּבְהִ֙לוּ֙ לְהָבִ֣יא אֶת־הָמָ֔ן אֶל־הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־עָשְׂתָ֥ה אֶסְתֵּֽר׃

[Esther 6:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.14/)

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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:111` 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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