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title: Esther 6:4 (JPS 1917) — And the king said: 'Who is in the court?' — Now Haman was come into… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king said: 'Who is in the court?' — Now Haman was come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. — Who acts: king. Esther 6:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 6:4 · JPS 1917

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And the king said: 'Who is in the court?' — Now Haman was come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. —

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** say, be, come, speak, hang, prepare · **To what, where:** court, Haman, outer court, Mordecai, gallows · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Esther 6:4 · 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 (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:98
# text = And the king said: 'Who is in the court?' — Now Haman was come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared 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	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
7	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	Haman	Haman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
31	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
36	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obj	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	acl:relcl	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
47	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- 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 | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the court |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past · passive |  | Haman |  | the outer court of the king's house | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto the king | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hang** | to-infinitive |  | Mordecai |  | the gallows |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mordecai=Theme on gallows=Destination |
| 6 | **prepare** | past · perfect | king | the gallows |  |  |  | for Mordecai | 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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מִ֣י בֶחָצֵ֑ר וְהָמָ֣ן בָּ֗א לַחֲצַ֤ר בֵּית־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ הַחִ֣יצוֹנָ֔ה לֵאמֹ֣ר לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לִתְלוֹת֙ אֶֽת־מָרְדֳּכַ֔י עַל־הָעֵ֖ץ אֲשֶׁר־הֵכִ֥ין לֽוֹ׃

[Esther 6:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.4/)

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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:98` 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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