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title: Esther 2:4 (JPS 1917) — and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti… · tree and pragmatics
description: and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti.' And the thing pleased the king; and he did so. Who acts: you, maiden, thing. Esther 2:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 2:4 · JPS 1917

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and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti.' And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

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**Who acts:** you, maiden, thing · **What happens:** let, please, be · **To what, where:** maiden, king, queen

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This is Esther 2:4 · 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 (you, maiden, thing), 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:26
# text = and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti.' And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pleaseth	please	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	Vashti	Vashti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pleased	please	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the maiden |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme |
| 2 | **please** | present | the maiden | the king |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | you *not said here* | queen |  |  |  | instead Vashti | tree rules |
| 4 | **please** | past | the thing | the king |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer |

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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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וְהַֽנַּעֲרָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר תִּיטַב֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ תִּמְלֹ֖ךְ תַּ֣חַת וַשְׁתִּ֑י וַיִּיטַ֧ב הַדָּבָ֛ר בְּעֵינֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וַיַּ֥עַשׂ כֵּֽן׃ס

[Esther 2:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.4/)

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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:26` 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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