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title: Esther 1:22 (JPS 1917) — for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every provin… · tree and pragmatics
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# Esther 1:22 · JPS 1917

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for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and speak according to the language of his people.

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**Who acts:** king, man · **What happens:** send, accord, bear, speak · **To what, where:** letters, provinces, rule, own house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Esther 1:22 · 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 (king, man), 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:22
# text = for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and speak according to the language of his people.
1	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
34	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
42	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	case	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	fixed	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **send** | past | king | letters |  | the king's provinces |  | into every province accord the writing and every people after people's language | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bear** | should | every man | rule |  | king's own house |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | every man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | accord the language of king's people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח סְפָרִים֙ אֶל־כָּל־מְדִינ֣וֹת הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אֶל־מְדִינָ֤ה וּמְדִינָה֙ כִּכְתָבָ֔הּ וְאֶל־עַ֥ם וָעָ֖ם כִּלְשׁוֹנ֑וֹ לִהְי֤וֹת כָּל־אִישׁ֙ שֹׂרֵ֣ר בְּבֵית֔וֹ וּמְדַבֵּ֖ר כִּלְשׁ֥וֹן עַמּֽוֹ׃פ

[Esther 1:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.22/)

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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:22` 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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