Daniel 5:5 דָּנִיֵּאל

Who acts: fingers, king, hand · What happens: come, write over, see, write · To what, where: palm

This is Daniel 5:5 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 — fingers, king, hand — and what happens in the verse to palm, 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.

בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָ֗ה נְפַ֙קָה֙ אֶצְבְּעָן֙ דִּ֣י יַד־אֱנָ֔שׁ וְכָֽתְבָן֙ לָקֳבֵ֣ל נֶבְרַשְׁתָּ֔א עַל־גִּירָ֕א דִּֽי־כְתַ֥ל הֵיכְלָ֖א דִּ֣י מַלְכָּ֑א וּמַלְכָּ֣א חָזֵ֔ה פַּ֥ס יְדָ֖ה דִּ֥י כָתְבָֽה׃

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.

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	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	2 ַהּ־	case	at
2	ַהּ־	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 נְפַ֙קָה֙	obl	it
3	שַׁעֲת	שָׁעָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	2 ַהּ־	appos	the
4	ָ֗ה	ה	DET	PronType=Art	3 שַׁעֲת	det	moment
5	נְפַ֙קָה֙	נְפַק	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=PEAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they went forth
6	אֶצְבְּעָן֙	אֶצְבַּע	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	5 נְפַ֙קָה֙	nsubj	fingers
7	דִּ֣י	דִּי	SCONJ	_	8 יַד־	mark	(diy) of
8	יַד־	יַד	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	6 אֶצְבְּעָן֙	acl:relcl	a hand
9	אֱנָ֔שׁ	אֱנָשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 יַד־	compound:smixut	of a human
10	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	11 כָֽתְבָן֙	cc	and
11	כָֽתְבָן֙	כְּתַב	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=PEAL Number=Plur	5 נְפַ֙קָה֙	conj	[they were] writing
12	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	13 קֳבֵ֣ל	case	(to)
13	קֳבֵ֣ל	קֳבֵל	NOUN	_	11 כָֽתְבָן֙	obl	before
14	נֶבְרַשְׁתּ	נֶבְרְשָׁה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	13 קֳבֵ֣ל	compound:smixut	the
15	ָ֔א	א	DET	PronType=Art	14 נֶבְרַשְׁתּ	det	candlestick
16	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	17 גִּיר	case	on
17	גִּיר	גִּיר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 כָֽתְבָן֙	obl	the
18	ָ֕א	א	DET	PronType=Art	17 גִּיר	det	plaster
19	דִּֽי־	דִּי	SCONJ	_	20 כְתַ֥ל	mark	(diy) of
20	כְתַ֥ל	כְּתַל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	17 גִּיר	acl:relcl	the wall
21	הֵיכְל	הֵיכַל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 כְתַ֥ל	compound:smixut	of
22	ָ֖א	א	DET	PronType=Art	21 הֵיכְל	det	the palace
23	דִּ֣י	דִּי	SCONJ	_	24 מַלְכּ	mark	(diy) of
24	מַלְכּ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 הֵיכְל	acl:relcl	the
25	ָ֑א	א	DET	PronType=Art	24 מַלְכּ	det	king
26	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	29 חָזֵ֔ה	cc	and
27	מַלְכּ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	29 חָזֵ֔ה	nsubj	the
28	ָ֣א	א	DET	PronType=Art	27 מַלְכּ	det	king
29	חָזֵ֔ה	חֲזָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PEAL Number=Sing	5 נְפַ֙קָה֙	conj	[was] seeing
30	פַּ֥ס	פַּס	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	29 חָזֵ֔ה	obj	the palm
31	יְד	יַד	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	30 פַּ֥ס	compound:smixut	of
32	ָ֖ה	ה	DET	PronType=Art	31 יְד	det	the hand
33	דִּ֥י	דִּי	SCONJ	_	34 כָתְבָֽה	mark	which
34	כָתְבָֽה	כְּתַב	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=PEAL Number=Sing	30 פַּ֥ס	acl:relcl	[was] writing
35	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	34 כָתְבָֽה	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
נְפַקָה they went forth	qatal · peal	אֶצְבְּעָן fingers
כָֽתְבָן [they were] writing	participle active · peal	אֶצְבְּעָן fingers
חָזֵה [was] seeing	participle active · peal	מַלְכּ the	פַּס the palm
כָתְבָֽה [was] writing	participle active · peal	פַּס the palm

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.

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.

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:117.

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