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# Esther 9:28 · JPS 1917

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and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.

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**Who acts:** days, memorial · **What happens:** remember, keep, not fail, perish · **To what, where:** days, generation, Jews, seed

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This is Esther 9:28 · 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 (days, memorial), 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:175
# text = and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Purim	Purim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	among	among	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	43	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	memorial	memorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	_
43	perish	perish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | should · passive |  | this days |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | participle |  |  |  |  | throughout every generation and every family and every province and every city |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent throughout generation=Location |
| 3 | **not** **fail** | should | this days of Purim |  |  | the Jews |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **perish** | present | the memorial of Jews |  |  | Jews's seed |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from seed=Causer |

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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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וְהַיָּמִ֣ים הָ֠אֵלֶּה נִזְכָּרִ֨ים וְנַעֲשִׂ֜ים בְּכָל־דּ֣וֹר וָד֗וֹר מִשְׁפָּחָה֙ וּמִשְׁפָּחָ֔ה מְדִינָ֥ה וּמְדִינָ֖ה וְעִ֣יר וָעִ֑יר וִימֵ֞י הַפּוּרִ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה לֹ֤א יַֽעַבְרוּ֙ מִתּ֣וֹךְ הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים וְזִכְרָ֖ם לֹא־יָס֥וּף מִזַּרְעָֽם׃ס

[Esther 9:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.28/)

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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:175` 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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