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title: Esther 1:6 (JPS 1917) — there were hangings of white, fine cotton, and blue, bordered with c… · tree and pragmatics
description: there were hangings of white, fine cotton, and blue, bordered with cords of fine linen and purple, upon silver rods and pillars of marble; the couches were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of green, and white, and shell, and onyx marble. Who acts: hangings, couches. Esther 1:6 in JPS 1917 with it
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# Esther 1:6 · JPS 1917

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there were hangings of white, fine cotton, and blue, bordered with cords of fine linen and purple, upon silver rods and pillars of marble; the couches were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of green, and white, and shell, and onyx marble.

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**Who acts:** hangings, couches · **What happens:** be, border · **To what, where:** hangings

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This is Esther 1:6 · 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 (hangings, couches), 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:5
# text = there were hangings of white, fine cotton, and blue, bordered with cords of fine linen and purple, upon silver rods and pillars of marble; the couches were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of green, and white, and shell, and onyx marble.
1	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hangings	hanging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	white	white	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bordered	border	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	couches	couch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	white	white	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	onyx	onyx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **be** | past | hangings of white  fine cotton and blue |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **border** | participle |  | hangings of white  fine cotton and blue *not said here* |  |  |  | with cords of fine linen and purple | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the couches |  |  |  |  | of gold and silver; upon a pavement of green and white and shell and onyx marble | tree rules |

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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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ח֣וּר ׀ כַּרְפַּ֣ס וּתְכֵ֗לֶת אָחוּז֙ בְּחַבְלֵי־ב֣וּץ וְאַרְגָּמָ֔ן עַל־גְּלִ֥ילֵי כֶ֖סֶף וְעַמּ֣וּדֵי שֵׁ֑שׁ מִטּ֣וֹת ׀ זָהָ֣ב וָכֶ֗סֶף עַ֛ל רִֽצְפַ֥ת בַּהַט־וָשֵׁ֖שׁ וְדַ֥ר וְסֹחָֽרֶת׃

[Esther 1:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.6/)

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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:5` of Mova's parse database.

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