Daniel 4:24 · JPS 1917

Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by almsgiving, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy prosperity.'

Who acts: you, counsel · What happens: let, be, break off, show · To what, where: counsel, sins, mercy, poor

This is Daniel 4:24 · 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, counsel), 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	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	6 let	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wherefore	punct
3	O	o	INTJ	_	4 king	discourse
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 king	punct
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 counsel	nmod:poss
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 acceptable	cop
10	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 let	xcomp
11	unto	unto	ADP	_	12 thee	case
12	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 acceptable	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 break	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 break	cc
15	break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 let	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 break	compound:prt
17	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 sins	nmod:poss
18	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 break	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 almsgiving	case
20	almsgiving	almsgiving	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 break	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 iniquities	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 iniquities	cc
23	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 iniquities	nmod:poss
24	iniquities	iniquity	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 break	conj
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 showing	mark
26	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 break	advcl
27	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 showing	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 poor	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 poor	det
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 showing	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 be	punct
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 be	mark
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 be	expl
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 be	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 lengthening	det
37	lengthening	lengthening	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 be	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 prosperity	case
39	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 prosperity	nmod:poss
40	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lengthening	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed form=imp, polarity=none, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	my counsel		king vocative; wherefore property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
2	is	infinitive	my counsel not said here			unto thee; acceptable property	tree rules
3	break off	infinitive	you not said here	thy sins		by almsgiving	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sin=Patient
4	show	gerund	you not said here	mercy	the poor		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mercy=Topic to poor=Recipient

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 Aramaic of this verse

לָהֵ֣ן מַלְכָּ֗א מִלְכִּי֙ יִשְׁפַּ֣ר עֲלָ֔ךְ וַחֲטָאָךְ֙ בְּצִדְקָ֣ה פְרֻ֔ק וַעֲוָיָתָ֖ךְ בְּמִחַ֣ן עֲנָ֑יִן הֵ֛ן תֶּהֱוֵ֥א אַרְכָ֖ה לִשְׁלֵוְתָֽךְ׃

Daniel 4:24: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DAN:133 of Mova's parse database.

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