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title: Esther 4:17 (JPS 1917) — So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had c… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him. Who acts: Mordecai, Esther. Esther 4:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 4:17 · JPS 1917

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So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

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**Who acts:** Mordecai, Esther · **What happens:** go, do, command · **To what, where:** way, Mordecai · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Esther 4:17 · 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:79
# text = So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	according	according	ADP	VBG	_	11	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **go** | past | Mordecai | Mordecai's way |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | Mordecai *not said here* |  |  |  |  | according all | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **command** | past · perfect | Esther | Mordecai |  |  |  |  | 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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וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֖ר מָרְדֳּכָ֑י וַיַּ֕עַשׂ כְּכֹ֛ל אֲשֶׁר־צִוְּתָ֥ה עָלָ֖יו אֶסְתֵּֽר׃ס

[Esther 4:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.4.17/)

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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:79` 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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