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title: Esther 9:13 (JPS 1917) — Then said Esther: 'If it please the king, let it be granted to the J… · tree and pragmatics
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# Esther 9:13 · JPS 1917

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Then said Esther: 'If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.'

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**Who acts:** Esther, petition, Jews, ten sons, day · **What happens:** say, please, let, grant, be, do · **To what, where:** king, petition, Jews, Shushan, ten sons, gallows · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Esther 9:13 · 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 (Esther, petition, Jews, ten sons), 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:159
# text = Then said Esther: 'If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	please	please	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Shushan	Shushan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
29	according	accord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	case	_	_
30	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
38	Haman	Haman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	_
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	hanged	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	xcomp	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Esther |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **please** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | petition | the king |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | petition |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grant** | infinitive · passive | petition *not said here* |  | the Jews |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: to jew=Goal |
| 5 | **is** | present | the Jews |  |  | Shushan |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | petition *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to morrow; accord this day's decree | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **let** | infinitive |  | Haman's ten sons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **hang** | infinitive · passive | Haman's ten sons *not said here* |  |  | the gallows |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: upon gallows=Location |
| 10 | **decree** |  | this day |  |  |  |  |  | nom decree «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַתֹּ֤אמֶר אֶסְתֵּר֙ אִם־עַל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ ט֔וֹב יִנָּתֵ֣ן גַּם־מָחָ֗ר לַיְּהוּדִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּשׁוּשָׁ֔ן לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת כְּדָ֣ת הַיּ֑וֹם וְאֵ֛ת עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת בְּנֵֽי־הָמָ֖ן יִתְל֥וּ עַל־הָעֵֽץ׃

[Esther 9:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.13/)

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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:159` 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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