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title: Esther 4:5 (JPS 1917) — Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was. Who acts: Esther, king, this, sackcloth. Esther 4:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Esther 4:5 · JPS 1917

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Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was.

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**Who acts:** Esther, king, this, sackcloth · **What happens:** call, appoint, attend, charge, go, know · **To what, where:** Hathach, king, Mordecai · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Esther 4:5 · 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 (Esther, king, this, sackcloth), 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:67
# text = Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hathach	Hathach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	chamberlains	chamberlain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	ccomp	_	_
34	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **call** | past | Esther |  |  |  | then | for Hathach | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for hathach=Recipient |
| 2 | **appoint** | past · perfect | king | Hathach |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attend** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Esther | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme |
| 4 | **charge** | past | Esther *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | Esther *not said here* |  |  | Mordecai |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mordecai=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **know** | to-infinitive | Esther *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is a** | past | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** | past | sackcloth |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַתִּקְרָא֩ אֶסְתֵּ֨ר לַהֲתָ֜ךְ מִסָּרִיסֵ֤י הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הֶעֱמִ֣יד לְפָנֶ֔יהָ וַתְּצַוֵּ֖הוּ עַֽל־מָרְדֳּכָ֑י לָדַ֥עַת מַה־זֶּ֖ה וְעַל־מַה־זֶּֽה׃

[Esther 4:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.4.5/)

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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:67` 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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