--- title: Esther 6:1 (JPS 1917) — On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring th… · tree and pragmatics description: On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king. Who acts: king. 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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 (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:95 # text = On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 could can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 records record NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 chronicles chronicle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 read read VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 27 before before ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **sleep** | can | the king | | | | night | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **command** | past | king | | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the book of records of the chronicles | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent book=Theme | | 4 | **read** | past · passive | | chronicles *= chronicle* | | | before the king | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 5 | **record** | | | the chronicles | | | | | nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} בַּלַּ֣יְלָה הַה֔וּא נָדְדָ֖ה שְׁנַ֣ת הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לְהָבִ֞יא אֶת־סֵ֤פֶר הַזִּכְרֹנוֹת֙ דִּבְרֵ֣י הַיָּמִ֔ים וַיִּהְי֥וּ נִקְרָאִ֖ים לִפְנֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ [Esther 6:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EST:95` 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. - ← previous: [Esther 5:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.94/) - next →: [Esther 6:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.96/) - ↑ back to [Esther 6:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.1/)