--- title: Esther 6:3 (JPS 1917) — And the king said: 'What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordec… · tree and pragmatics description: And the king said: 'What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?' Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him: 'There is nothing done for him.' Who acts: king, servants, nothing. 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Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him: 'There is nothing done for him.' **Who acts:** king, servants, nothing · **What happens:** say, do, minister, be · **To what, where:** honour, Mordecai · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Esther 6:3 · 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 (king, servants, nothing), 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:97 # text = And the king said: 'What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?' Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him: 'There is nothing done for him.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 7 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 8 det _ _ 8 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 dignity dignity NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 ccomp _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Mordecai Mordecai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 obl _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 20 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 ministered minister VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 unto unto ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 32 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 33 expl _ _ 33 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 34 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 33 nsubj _ _ 35 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q, act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | present · perfect · passive | | what honour and dignity | Mordecai | | | for this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king's servants | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **minister** | past | the king's servants | | | | | unto king | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | present | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **do** | participle | | | | | | for king | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ מַֽה־נַּעֲשָׂ֞ה יְקָ֧ר וּגְדוּלָּ֛ה לְמָרְדֳּכַ֖י עַל־זֶ֑ה וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ נַעֲרֵ֤י הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ מְשָׁ֣רְתָ֔יו לֹא־נַעֲשָׂ֥ה עִמּ֖וֹ דָּבָֽר׃ [Esther 6:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EST:97` 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 6:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.96/) - next →: [Esther 6:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.98/) - ↑ back to [Esther 6:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.3/)