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title: Esther 8:6 (JPS 1917) — for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people?… · tree and pragmatics
description: for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?' Who acts: I, evil. Esther 8:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 8:6 · JPS 1917

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for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?'

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**Who acts:** I, evil · **What happens:** endure, see, come, destroy · **To what, where:** evil, destruction, kindred

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This is Esther 8:6 · 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 (I, evil), 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:133
# text = for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?'
1	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	kindred	kindred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endure** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the evil |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | shall | the evil |  |  |  |  | unto my people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **endure** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the destruction of my kindred |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer destruction=Stimulus |
| 6 | **destroy** |  |  | my kindred |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=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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כִּ֠י אֵיכָכָ֤ה אוּכַל֙ וְֽרָאִ֔יתִי בָּרָעָ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־יִמְצָ֣א אֶת־עַמִּ֑י וְאֵֽיכָכָ֤ה אוּכַל֙ וְֽרָאִ֔יתִי בְּאָבְדַ֖ן מוֹלַדְתִּֽי׃ס

[Esther 8:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.6/)

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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:133` 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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