--- title: Esther 8:2 (JPS 1917) — And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. · tree and pragmatics description: And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. Who acts: Esther. Esther 8:2 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.128/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST/8/) / [8:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.2/) / JPS 2 # Esther 8:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. **Who acts:** Esther · **What happens:** set · **To what, where:** Mordecai, house This is Esther 8:2 · 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 (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:128 # text = And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Esther Esther PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Mordecai Mordecai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Haman Haman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **set** | past | Esther | Mordecai | | the house of Haman | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mordecai=Theme over house=Destination | 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} וַיָּ֨סַר הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ אֶת־טַבַּעְתּ֗וֹ אֲשֶׁ֤ר הֶֽעֱבִיר֙ מֵֽהָמָ֔ן וַֽיִּתְּנָ֖הּ לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑י וַתָּ֧שֶׂם אֶסְתֵּ֛ר אֶֽת־מָרְדֳּכַ֖י עַל־בֵּ֥ית הָמָֽן׃פ [Esther 8:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.2/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.127/) 2. **And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EST:128` 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. - ← previous: [Esther 8:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.127/) - next →: [Esther 8:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.129/) - ↑ back to [Esther 8:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.2/)