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title: Esther 5:13 (JPS 1917) — Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.' Who acts: this, I, Mordecai. Esther 5:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 5:13 · JPS 1917

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Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.'

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**Who acts:** this, I, Mordecai · **What happens:** avail, see, sit · **To what, where:** nothing, me, Mordecai, gate

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This is Esther 5:13 · 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 (this, I, Mordecai), 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:93
# text = Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.'
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	availeth	avail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avail** | present | this | nothing | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | I | Mordecai |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | Mordecai *not said here* |  |  | the king's gate |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=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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וְכָל־זֶ֕ה אֵינֶ֥נּוּ שֹׁוֶ֖ה לִ֑י בְּכָל־עֵ֗ת אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲנִ֤י רֹאֶה֙ אֶת־מָרְדֳּכַ֣י הַיְּהוּדִ֔י יוֹשֵׁ֖ב בְּשַׁ֥עַר הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

[Esther 5:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.13/)

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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:93` 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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