---
title: Esther 9:12 (JPS 1917) — Now whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request further, it shall be done.' Who acts: thy. Esther 9:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.158/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Esther](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST/) / [chapter 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST/9/) / [9:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.12/) / JPS 2

# Esther 9:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Now whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request further, it shall be done.'

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** thy · **What happens:** grant, do, petition, request · **To what, where:** petition, thee

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Esther 9:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (thy), 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:158
# text = Now whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request further, it shall be done.'
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	det	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	iobj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	det	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	_
16	further	further	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | shall · passive |  | petition | thee |  | now |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal thou=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | shall · passive |  | petition |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **petition** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **request** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ לְאֶסְתֵּ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֗ה בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַבִּירָ֡ה הָרְגוּ֩ הַיְּהוּדִ֨ים וְאַבֵּ֜ד חֲמֵ֧שׁ מֵא֣וֹת אִ֗ישׁ וְאֵת֙ עֲשֶׂ֣רֶת בְּנֵֽי־הָמָ֔ן בִּשְׁאָ֛ר מְדִינ֥וֹת הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מֶ֣ה עָשׂ֑וּ וּמַה־שְּׁאֵֽלָתֵךְ֙ וְיִנָּ֣תֵֽן לָ֔ךְ וּמַה־בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֥ךְ ע֖וֹד וְתֵעָֽשׂ׃

[Esther 9:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.12/)

<!-- .note -->
This verse in JPS 1917:

<!-- .ens -->
1. [And the king said unto Esther the queen: 'The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the castle, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.157/)
2. **Now whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request further, it shall be done.'**

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EST:158` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Esther 9:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.157/)
- next →: [Esther 9:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.159/)
- ↑ back to [Esther 9:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.12/)