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title: Esther 9:29 (JPS 1917) — Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote down all the acts of power, to confirm this second letter of Purim. Who acts: Esther, power. Esther 9:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 9:29 · JPS 1917

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Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote down all the acts of power, to confirm this second letter of Purim.

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**Who acts:** Esther, power · **What happens:** write down, confirm, act, letter · **To what, where:** acts, second letter, Purim

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This is Esther 9:29 · 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, power), 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:176
# text = Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote down all the acts of power, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
2	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Abihail	Abihail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	confirm	confirm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Purim	Purim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **write down** | past | Esther and Mordecai | all acts of power |  |  | then |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme |
| 2 | **confirm** | to-infinitive | Esther and Mordecai *not said here* | this second letter of Purim |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot letter=Topic |
| 3 | **act** |  | power |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **letter** |  |  | Purim |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication 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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וַ֠תִּכְתֹּב אֶסְתֵּ֨ר הַמַּלְכָּ֧ה בַת־אֲבִיחַ֛יִל וּמָרְדֳּכַ֥י הַיְּהוּדִ֖י אֶת־כָּל־תֹּ֑קֶף לְקַיֵּ֗ם אֵ֣ת אִגֶּ֧רֶת הַפּוּרִ֛ים הַזֹּ֖את הַשֵּׁנִֽית׃

[Esther 9:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.29/)

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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:176` 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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