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title: Esther 5:6 (JPS 1917) — And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine: 'Whatever thy… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine: 'Whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be performed.' Who acts: king, thy. Esther 5:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Esther 5:6 · JPS 1917

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And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine: 'Whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be performed.'

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**Who acts:** king, thy · **What happens:** say, grant, perform, petition, request · **To what, where:** banquet, petition · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Esther 5:6 · 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, 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:86
# text = And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine: 'Whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be performed.'
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	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Esther	Esther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
14	Whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	det	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	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	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
25	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	40	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=promise, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  | the banquet of wine |  | unto Esther | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **grant** | shall · passive |  | thy petition |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal thou=Theme |
| 3 | **perform** | shall · passive |  | petition |  |  |  | to the half of the kingdom; thy request *obl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **petition** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **request** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ לְאֶסְתֵּר֙ בְּמִשְׁתֵּ֣ה הַיַּ֔יִן מַה־שְּׁאֵלָתֵ֖ךְ וְיִנָּ֣תֵֽן לָ֑ךְ וּמַה־בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֛ךְ עַד־חֲצִ֥י הַמַּלְכ֖וּת וְתֵעָֽשׂ׃

[Esther 5:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.6/)

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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:86` 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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