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title: Esther 2:15 (JPS 1917) — Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. Who acts: Mordecai, turn, maiden, Hegai. Esther 2:15 in JPS
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# Esther 2:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed.

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**Who acts:** Mordecai, turn, maiden, Hegai · **What happens:** take, come, go in, require, appoint · **To what, where:** maiden, nothing

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This is Esther 2:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, turn, maiden, Hegai), 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:37
# text = Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Abihail	Abihail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	35	obj	_	_
37	but	but	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nmod	_	_
39	Hegai	Hegai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	's	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
51	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **take** | past · perfect | Mordecai | maiden |  |  |  | for Esther's daughter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for daughter=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **come** | past · passive | the turn of Esther |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go in** | to-infinitive | the turn of Esther *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the king | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **require** | past | maiden | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Precondition |
| 5 | **appoint** | past | Hegai |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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וּבְהַגִּ֣יעַ תֹּר־אֶסְתֵּ֣ר בַּת־אֲבִיחַ֣יִל דֹּ֣ד מָרְדֳּכַ֡י אֲשֶׁר֩ לָקַֽח־ל֨וֹ לְבַ֜ת לָב֣וֹא אֶל־הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ לֹ֤א בִקְשָׁה֙ דָּבָ֔ר כִּ֠י אִ֣ם אֶת־אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֹאמַ֛ר הֵגַ֥י סְרִיס־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ שֹׁמֵ֣ר הַנָּשִׁ֑ים וַתְּהִ֤י אֶסְתֵּר֙ נֹשֵׂ֣את חֵ֔ן בְּעֵינֵ֖י כָּל־רֹאֶֽיהָ׃

[Esther 2:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.15/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed.**
2. [And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.38/)

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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:37` 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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