Daniel 5:8 דָּנִיֵּאל

Who acts: wise men, knees · What happens: come in, not read, make · To what, where: writing, interpretation

This is Daniel 5:8 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 — wise men, knees — and what happens in the verse to writing, interpretation, 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.

אֱדַ֙יִן֙ עָֽלִּ֔ין כֹּ֖ל חַכִּימֵ֣י מַלְכָּ֑א וְלָֽא־כָהֲלִ֤ין כְּתָבָא֙ לְמִקְרֵ֔א וּפִשְׁרֵ֖הּ לְהוֹדָעָ֥ה לְמַלְכָּֽא׃

Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.

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	אֱדַ֙יִן֙	אֱדַיִן	ADV	_	root	root	then
2	עָֽלִּ֔ין	עֲלַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PEAL Number=Plur	1 אֱדַ֙יִן֙	parataxis	[were] going in
3	כֹּ֖ל	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 עָֽלִּ֔ין	nsubj	all
4	חַכִּימֵ֣י	חַכִּים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	3 כֹּ֖ל	compound:smixut	the wise men
5	מַלְכּ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 חַכִּימֵ֣י	compound:smixut	of
6	ָ֑א	א	DET	PronType=Art	5 מַלְכּ	det	the king
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 כָהֲלִ֤ין	cc	and
8	לָֽא־	לָא	ADV	_	9 כָהֲלִ֤ין	advmod	not
9	כָהֲלִ֤ין	כְּהַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PEAL Number=Plur	1 אֱדַ֙יִן֙	conj	[they were] able
10	כְּתָב	כְּתָב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 מִקְרֵ֔א	obj	the
11	ָא֙	א	DET	PronType=Art	10 כְּתָב	det	writing
12	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	13 מִקְרֵ֔א	case	to
13	מִקְרֵ֔א	קְרָא	VERB	HebBinyan=PEAL	9 כָהֲלִ֤ין	advcl	read aloud
14	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	18 הוֹדָעָ֥ה	cc	and
15	פִשְׁר	פְּשַׁר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	18 הוֹדָעָ֥ה	obj	its
16	ֵ֖הּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 פִשְׁר	nmod:poss	interpretation
17	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	18 הוֹדָעָ֥ה	case	to
18	הוֹדָעָ֥ה	יְדַע	VERB	HebBinyan=HAPHEL	13 מִקְרֵ֔א	conj	make known
19	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	20 מַלְכּ	case	to
20	מַלְכּ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	18 הוֹדָעָ֥ה	obl	the
21	ָֽא	א	DET	PronType=Art	20 מַלְכּ	det	king
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	21 ָֽא	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
עָֽלִּין [were] going in	participle active · peal	חַכִּימֵי the wise men
כָהֲלִין [they were] able	participle active · peal	חַכִּימֵי the wise men
מִקְרֵא read aloud	infinitive construct · peal	חַכִּימֵי the wise men	כְּתָב the
הוֹדָעָה make known	infinitive construct · haphel	חַכִּימֵי the wise men	פִשְׁר its

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.

Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.

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:120.

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