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title: Esther 5:4 (JPS 1917) — And Esther said: 'If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Esther said: 'If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.' Who acts: Esther, it, king, I. Esther 5:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 5:4 · JPS 1917

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And Esther said: 'If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.'

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**Who acts:** Esther, it, king, I · **What happens:** say, seem, let, come, prepare · **To what, where:** king, banquet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Esther 5:4 · 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, it, king, I), 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:84
# text = And Esther said: 'If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Haman	Haman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Esther |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **seem** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | it |  |  |  |  | unto the king; good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | the king and Haman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | the king and Haman *not said here* |  |  |  | day | unto the banquet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **prepare** | present · perfect | I | the banquet |  |  |  | for king | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Product for he=Beneficiary |

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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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וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֶסְתֵּ֔ר אִם־עַל־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ ט֑וֹב יָב֨וֹא הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ וְהָמָן֙ הַיּ֔וֹם אֶל־הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֥יתִי לֽוֹ׃

[Esther 5:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.4/)

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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:84` 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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