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title: Esther 2:11 (JPS 1917) — And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what would become of her. Who acts: Mordecai, Esther. Esther 2:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 2:11 · JPS 1917

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And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what would become of her.

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**Who acts:** Mordecai, Esther · **What happens:** walk, know, do, become · **To what, where:** court · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Esther 2:11 · 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 (Mordecai, Esther), 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:33
# text = And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what would become of her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **walk** | past | Mordecai |  |  | the court of the women's house | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before court=Trajectory |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | Mordecai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | past | Esther |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **become** | would |  |  |  |  |  | of Mordecai | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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וּבְכָל־י֣וֹם וָי֔וֹם מָרְדֳּכַי֙ מִתְהַלֵּ֔ךְ לִפְנֵ֖י חֲצַ֣ר בֵּית־הַנָּשִׁ֑ים לָדַ֙עַת֙ אֶת־שְׁל֣וֹם אֶסְתֵּ֔ר וּמַה־יֵּעָשֶׂ֖ה בָּֽהּ׃

[Esther 2:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.11/)

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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:33` 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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