--- title: Esther 7:4 (JPS 1917) — But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my pea… · tree and pragmatics description: But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, for the adversary is not worthy that the king be endamaged.' Who acts: I, adversary, my. Esther 7:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.116/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Esther](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST/) / [chapter 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST/7/) / [7:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.4/) / JPS 2 # Esther 7:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, for the adversary is not worthy that the king be endamaged.' **Who acts:** I, adversary, my · **What happens:** sell, hold, not be, endamage, pacify · **To what, where:** we, peace, king This is Esther 7:4 · 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 (I, adversary, my), 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:116 # text = But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, for the adversary is not worthy that the king be endamaged.' 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 bondmen bondman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 bondwomen bondwoman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 adversary adversary NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 worthy worthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 endamaged endamage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ccomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 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 | **sell** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | | we | | | | for bondmen and bondwomen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for bondman=Asset | | 2 | **hold** | past · perfect | I | my peace | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | the adversary | | | | | worthy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **endamage** | infinitive · passive | | the king | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pacify** | | my | | | | | | nom peace «state transitive»: 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} כִּ֤י נִמְכַּ֙רְנוּ֙ אֲנִ֣י וְעַמִּ֔י לְהַשְׁמִ֖יד לַהֲר֣וֹג וּלְאַבֵּ֑ד וְ֠אִלּוּ לַעֲבָדִ֨ים וְלִשְׁפָח֤וֹת נִמְכַּ֙רְנוּ֙ הֶחֱרַ֔שְׁתִּי כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין הַצָּ֛ר שֹׁוֶ֖ה בְּנֵ֥זֶק הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס [Esther 7:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.4/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.115/) 2. **But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, for the adversary is not worthy that the king be endamaged.'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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