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title: Esther 4:13 (JPS 1917) — Then Mordecai bade them to return answer unto Esther: 'Think not wit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Mordecai bade them to return answer unto Esther: 'Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. Who acts: Mordecai, thou. Esther 4:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 4:13 · JPS 1917

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Then Mordecai bade them to return answer unto Esther: 'Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

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**Who acts:** Mordecai, thou · **What happens:** bade, return, not think, escape · **To what, where:** servants, answer, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Esther 4:13 · 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, thou), 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:75
# text = Then Mordecai bade them to return answer unto Esther: 'Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | Mordecai | servants *= servant* |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | to-infinitive | Mordecai *not said here* | answer |  |  |  | unto Esther | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with thyself | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **escape** | shall | thou |  |  | the king's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מָרְדֳּכַ֖י לְהָשִׁ֣יב אֶל־אֶסְתֵּ֑ר אַל־תְּדַמִּ֣י בְנַפְשֵׁ֔ךְ לְהִמָּלֵ֥ט בֵּית־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מִכָּל־הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃

[Esther 4:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.4.13/)

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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:75` 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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