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title: Esther 6:5 (JPS 1917) — And the king's servants said unto him: 'Behold, Haman standeth in th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king's servants said unto him: 'Behold, Haman standeth in the court.' And the king said: 'Let him come in.' Who acts: servants, Haman, king. Esther 6:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 6:5 · JPS 1917

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And the king's servants said unto him: 'Behold, Haman standeth in the court.' And the king said: 'Let him come in.'

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**Who acts:** servants, Haman, king · **What happens:** say, stand, let, come in · **To what, where:** court, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Esther 6:5 · 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 (servants, Haman, 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:99
# text = And the king's servants said unto him: 'Behold, Haman standeth in the court.' And the king said: 'Let him come in.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
11	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Haman	Haman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	standeth	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king's servants |  |  |  |  | unto king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | present | Haman |  |  | the court |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in court=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come in** | infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ נַעֲרֵ֤י הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֵלָ֔יו הִנֵּ֥ה הָמָ֖ן עֹמֵ֣ד בֶּחָצֵ֑ר וַיֹּ֥אמֶר הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ יָבֽוֹא׃

[Esther 6:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.5/)

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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:99` 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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