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title: Esther 2:7 (JPS 1917) — And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; f… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was of beautiful form and fair to look on; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter. Who acts: Nebuchadnezzar, that, Hadassah, maiden. Esth
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# Esther 2:7 · JPS 1917

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And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was of beautiful form and fair to look on; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

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**Who acts:** Nebuchadnezzar, that, Hadassah, maiden, father, Mordecai · **What happens:** bring up, be, have, look on, take · **To what, where:** Hadassah, Esther, father, maiden

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This is Esther 2:7 · 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 (Nebuchadnezzar, that, Hadassah, maiden), 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:29
# text = And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was of beautiful form and fair to look on; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	Hadassah	Hadassah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
20	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc:preconj	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
39	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	45	mark	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
45	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	advcl	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
47	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
49	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring up** | past | Nebuchadnezzar | Hadassah |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hadassah=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | Esther |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Hadassah | father nor mother |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | the maiden |  |  |  |  | of beautiful form | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look on** | to-infinitive | the maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | past | maiden's father and mother |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **take** | past | Mordecai | maiden |  |  |  | for Nebuchadnezzar's own daughter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for daughter=Beneficiary |

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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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וַיְהִ֨י אֹמֵ֜ן אֶת־הֲדַסָּ֗ה הִ֤יא אֶסְתֵּר֙ בַּת־דֹּד֔וֹ כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין לָ֖הּ אָ֣ב וָאֵ֑ם וְהַנַּעֲרָ֤ה יְפַת־תֹּ֙אַר֙ וְטוֹבַ֣ת מַרְאֶ֔ה וּבְמ֤וֹת אָבִ֙יהָ֙ וְאִמָּ֔הּ לְקָחָ֧הּ מָרְדֳּכַ֛י ל֖וֹ לְבַֽת׃

[Esther 2:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.7/)

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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:29` of Mova's parse database.

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