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title: Esther 1:19 (JPS 1917) — If it please the king, let there go forth a royal commandment from h… · tree and pragmatics
description: If it please the king, let there go forth a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus, and that the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she. Who acts: 
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# Esther 1:19 · JPS 1917

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If it please the king, let there go forth a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus, and that the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.

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**Who acts:** wrath, you, Vashti, king · **What happens:** please, let, go, write, not alter, come · **To what, where:** king, royal commandment, wrath, king Ahasuerus, royal estate

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This is Esther 1:19 · 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 (wrath, you, Vashti, king), 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:19
# text = If it please the king, let there go forth a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus, and that the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	please	please	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	_	9	expl	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Persians	Persian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Medes	mede	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	altered	alter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	Vashti	Vashti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
41	no	no	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	40	advmod	_	_
43	before	before	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Ahasuerus	Ahasuerus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
55	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	51	obl	_	_
57	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	nsubj	_	_
58	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
59	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	56	acl:relcl	_	_
60	than	than	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	_
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, form=imp, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **please** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | wrath | the king |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a royal commandment |  | there |  | forth *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location commandment=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | wrath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **write** | infinitive · passive | wrath *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the laws of the Persians and the Medes | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **not** **alter** | infinitive · passive |  | wrath |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **come** | present | Vashti |  |  | king Ahasuerus |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before ahasuerus=Location |
| 8 | **give** | present | the king | Vashti's royal estate |  |  |  | unto another | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estate=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than Vashti; good *property* | tree rules |

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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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אִם־עַל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ ט֗וֹב יֵצֵ֤א דְבַר־מַלְכוּת֙ מִלְּפָנָ֔יו וְיִכָּתֵ֛ב בְּדָתֵ֥י פָֽרַס־וּמָדַ֖י וְלֹ֣א יַעֲב֑וֹר אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹֽא־תָב֜וֹא וַשְׁתִּ֗י לִפְנֵי֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ וּמַלְכוּתָהּ֙ יִתֵּ֣ן הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לִרְעוּתָ֖הּ הַטּוֹבָ֥ה מִמֶּֽנָּה׃

[Esther 1:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.19/)

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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:19` of Mova's parse database.

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