Daniel 4:27 · JPS 1917
The king spoke, and said: 'Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?'
Who acts: king, I, majesty · What happens: speak, say, not be, build, glory · To what, where: great Babylon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Daniel 4:27 · 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 (king, I, majesty), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Babylon | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Babylon | punct |
| 9 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Babylon | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 Babylon | advmod |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 Babylon | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Babylon | amod |
| 13 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 built | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 built | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 built | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 built | aux |
| 18 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 Babylon | acl:relcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 21 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 place | amod |
| 22 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 dwelling | punct |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 built | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 might | punct |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 might | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 might | det |
| 28 | might | might | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 built | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 power | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 power | nmod:poss |
| 31 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 might | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 glory | cc |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 glory | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 glory | det |
| 35 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 might | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 majesty | case |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 38 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 glory | nmod |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the king | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a | present | this great Babylon | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | build | present · perfect | I | this great Babylon | for a royal dwelling place; by the might of my power and the glory of my majesty | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent which=Product for place=Asset | |||
| 5 | glory | my majesty | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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 Aramaic of this verse
עָנֵ֤ה מַלְכָּא֙ וְאָמַ֔ר הֲלָ֥א דָא־הִ֖יא בָּבֶ֣ל רַבְּתָ֑א דִּֽי־אֲנָ֤ה בֱנַיְתַהּ֙ לְבֵ֣ית מַלְכ֔וּ בִּתְקַ֥ף חִסְנִ֖י וְלִיקָ֥ר הַדְרִֽי׃
Daniel 4:27: 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:136 of Mova's parse database.
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