Daniel 2:18 דָּנִיֵּאל

Who acts: Daniel · What happens: ask, not perish · To what, where: mercy

This is Daniel 2:18 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Biblical Aramaic as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Aramaic — and its pragmatics: who acts — Daniel — and what happens in the verse to mercy, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 12 chapters of Daniel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וְרַחֲמִ֗ין לְמִבְעֵא֙ מִן־קֳדָם֙ אֱלָ֣הּ שְׁמַיָּ֔א עַל־רָזָ֖ה דְּנָ֑ה דִּ֣י לָ֤א יְהֹֽבְדוּן֙ דָּנִיֵּ֣אל וְחַבְר֔וֹהִי עִם־שְׁאָ֖ר חַכִּימֵ֥י בָבֶֽל׃

that they might ask mercy of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

The tree

This verse is in Biblical Aramaic, as the book has it here; its tree is MACULA's Aramaic tree. Right to left, as it is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	4 מִבְעֵא֙	cc	and
2	רַחֲמִ֗ין	רַחֲמִין	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	4 מִבְעֵא֙	obj	compassion(s)
3	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	4 מִבְעֵא֙	case	to
4	מִבְעֵא֙	בעה	VERB	HebBinyan=PEAL	root	root	ask
5	מִן־	מִן	ADP	_	7 אֱלָ֣הּ	case	from
6	קֳדָם֙	קֳדָם	ADP	_	7 אֱלָ֣הּ	case	before
7	אֱלָ֣הּ	אֱלָהּ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 מִבְעֵא֙	obl	the God
8	שְׁמַיּ	שָׁמַיִן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	7 אֱלָ֣הּ	compound:smixut	of
9	ָ֔א	א	DET	PronType=Art	8 שְׁמַיּ	det	the heavens
10	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	11 רָז	case	concerning
11	רָז	רָז	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 מִבְעֵא֙	obl	the
12	ָ֖ה	ה	DET	PronType=Art	11 רָז	det	secret
13	דְּנָ֑ה	דְּנָה	DET	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 רָז	det	this
14	דִּ֣י	דִּי	SCONJ	_	16 יְהֹֽבְדוּן֙	mark	that
15	לָ֤א	לָא	ADV	_	16 יְהֹֽבְדוּן֙	advmod	not
16	יְהֹֽבְדוּן֙	אֲבַד	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HAPHEL Number=Plur Person=3	4 מִבְעֵא֙	parataxis	they will destroy
17	דָּנִיֵּ֣אל	דָּנִיֵּאל	PROPN	_	16 יְהֹֽבְדוּן֙	obj	Daniel
18	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	19 חַבְר֔וֹ	cc	and
19	חַבְר֔וֹ	חֲבַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	17 דָּנִיֵּ֣אל	conj	companions
20	הִי	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 חַבְר֔וֹ	nmod:poss	his
21	עִם־	עִם	ADP	_	22 שְׁאָ֖ר	case	with
22	שְׁאָ֖ר	שְׁאָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 יְהֹֽבְדוּן֙	obl	the rest
23	חַכִּימֵ֥י	חַכִּים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	22 שְׁאָ֖ר	compound:smixut	of the wise men
24	בָבֶֽל	בָּבֶל	PROPN	_	23 חַכִּימֵ֥י	compound:smixut	of Babylon
25	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	24 בָבֶֽל	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
מִבְעֵא ask	infinitive construct · peal		רַחֲמִין compassion(s)
יְהֹֽבְדוּן they will destroy	yiqtol · haphel		דָּנִיֵּאל Daniel + חַבְרוֹ companions

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

that they might ask mercy of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc-arc:DAN:14.

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