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title: Esther 5:1 (JPS 1917) — Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house; and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the entrance of the house. Who acts: it, Esther, king. Esther 5:1 in JP
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# Esther 5:1 · JPS 1917

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Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house; and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the entrance of the house.

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**Who acts:** it, Esther, king · **What happens:** come, pass, put, stand, sit · **To what, where:** royal apparel, inner court, royal house

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This is Esther 5:1 · 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 (it, Esther, king), 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:80
# text = Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house; and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the entrance of the house.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	apparel	apparel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	over	over	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
32	against	against	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
42	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	over	over	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
52	against	against	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | past | it |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | past | Esther |  |  | Esther's royal apparel |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on apparel=Destination |
| 4 | **stand** | past | Esther *not said here* |  |  | the inner court of the king's house |  | against the king's house | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in court=Location |
| 5 | **sit** | past | the king |  |  | the royal house |  | upon king's royal throne; against the entrance of the house | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location |

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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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וַיְהִ֣י ׀ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֗י וַתִּלְבַּ֤שׁ אֶסְתֵּר֙ מַלְכ֔וּת וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֞ד בַּחֲצַ֤ר בֵּית־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ הַפְּנִימִ֔ית נֹ֖כַח בֵּ֣ית הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְ֠הַמֶּלֶךְ יוֹשֵׁ֞ב עַל־כִּסֵּ֤א מַלְכוּתוֹ֙ בְּבֵ֣ית הַמַּלְכ֔וּת נֹ֖כַח פֶּ֥תַח הַבָּֽיִת׃

[Esther 5:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.1/)

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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:80` 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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