Daniel 1:12 · JPS 1917

'Try thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

Who acts: you, I, servants · What happens: try, beseech, let, give, eat, drink · To what, where: servants, thee, pulse, us

This is Daniel 1:12 · 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 (you, I, servants), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Try	punct
2	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 servants	nmod:poss
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Try	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Try	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 beseech	nsubj
7	beseech	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Try	parataxis
8	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 beseech	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 days	punct
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Try	obl:unmarked
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Try	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	pulse	pulse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 pulse	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 water	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 water	cc
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pulse	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 drink	mark
25	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 water	acl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Try	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	thy servants		day	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality
2	beseech	present	I	thee			tree rules
3	let	infinitive	you not said here	servants = servant			tree rules
4	give	infinitive	servants = servant not said here	pulse and water	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient pulse=Theme
5	eat	to-infinitive	servants = servant not said here	pulse and water not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drink	to-infinitive	servants = servant not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

נַס־נָ֥א אֶת־עֲבָדֶ֖יךָ יָמִ֣ים עֲשָׂרָ֑ה וְיִתְּנוּ־לָ֜נוּ מִן־הַזֵּרֹעִ֛ים וְנֹאכְלָ֖ה וּמַ֥יִם וְנִשְׁתֶּֽה׃

Daniel 1:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DAN:11 of Mova's parse database.

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