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title: Esther 1:9 (JPS 1917) — Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house… · tree and pragmatics
description: Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus. Who acts: Vashti, royal house. Esther 1:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 1:9 · JPS 1917

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Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

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**Who acts:** Vashti, royal house · **What happens:** make, belong · **To what, where:** feast, royal house, Ahasuerus

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This is Esther 1:9 · 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 (Vashti, royal house), 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:8
# text = Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
1	Also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Vashti	Vashti	PROPN	NNP	_	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
19	Ahasuerus	Ahasuerus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Vashti | a feast |  | the royal house |  | for the women | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent feast=Product for woman=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **belong** | past | the royal house |  | Ahasuerus  king |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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גַּ֚ם וַשְׁתִּ֣י הַמַּלְכָּ֔ה עָשְׂתָ֖ה מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה נָשִׁ֑ים בֵּ֚ית הַמַּלְכ֔וּת אֲשֶׁ֖ר לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵרֽוֹשׁ׃ס

[Esther 1:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.9/)

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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:8` 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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