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title: Esther 8:1 (JPS 1917) — On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews'… · tree and pragmatics
description: On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. Who acts: king. Esther 8:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 8:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** house

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This is Esther 8:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (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:125
# text = On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Ahasuerus	Ahasuerus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Haman	Haman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Jews	Jews	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **give** | past · do-support | the king | the house of Haman |  |  | day | unto Esther | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא נָתַ֞ן הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ֙ לְאֶסְתֵּ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֔ה אֶת־בֵּ֥ית הָמָ֖ן צֹרֵ֣ר הַיְּהוּדִ֑ים וּמָרְדֳּכַ֗י בָּ֚א לִפְנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כִּֽי־הִגִּ֥ידָה אֶסְתֵּ֖ר מַ֥ה הוּא־לָֽהּ׃

[Esther 8:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen.**
2. [And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.126/)

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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:125` 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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