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title: Esther 1:18 (JPS 1917) — And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard… · tree and pragmatics
description: And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the deed of the queen say the like unto all the king's princes. Who acts: princesses. Esther 1:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 1:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the deed of the queen say the like unto all the king's princes.

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**Who acts:** princesses · **What happens:** hear, say · **To what, where:** like · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Esther 1:18 · 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 (princesses), 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:17
# text = And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the deed of the queen say the like unto all the king's princes.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Media	Media	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	like	like	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **hear** | present · perfect | the princesses of Persia and Media |  |  |  |  | of the deed of the queen | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of deed=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | the princesses of Persia and Media | the like |  |  | day | unto the king's princes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent like=Topic |

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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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וְֽהַיּ֨וֹם הַזֶּ֜ה תֹּאמַ֣רְנָה ׀ שָׂר֣וֹת פָּֽרַס־וּמָדַ֗י אֲשֶׁ֤ר שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ אֶת־דְּבַ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֔ה לְכֹ֖ל שָׂרֵ֣י הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וּכְדַ֖י בִּזָּי֥וֹן וָקָֽצֶף׃

[Esther 1:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the deed of the queen say the like unto all the king's princes.**
2. [So will there arise enough contempt and wrath.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.18/)

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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:17` 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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