--- title: Esther 8:4 (JPS 1917) — Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre. · tree and pragmatics description: Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre. Who acts: king. Esther 8:4 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.130/) [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/) / [8:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.4/) / JPS 1 # Esther 8:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre. **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** hold out · **To what, where:** golden sceptre, Esther This is Esther 8:4 · 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:130 # text = Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Esther Esther PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 iobj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sceptre sceptre NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **hold out** | past | the king | the golden sceptre | Esther | | then | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent esther=Theme sceptre=Eventuality | 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} וַיּ֤וֹשֶׁט הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ לְאֶסְתֵּ֔ר אֵ֖ת שַׁרְבִ֣ט הַזָּהָ֑ב וַתָּ֣קָם אֶסְתֵּ֔ר וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֖ד לִפְנֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ [Esther 8:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.4/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre.** 2. [So Esther arose, and stood before the king.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.131/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EST:130` 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 8:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.129/) - next →: [Esther 8:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.131/) - ↑ back to [Esther 8:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.4/)