Daniel 4:28 · JPS 1917
While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven: 'O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: the kingdom is departed from thee.
Who acts: word, voice · What happens: be, fall, speak, depart · To what, where: mouth, voice, kingdom, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Daniel 4:28 · 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 (word, voice), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 mouth | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mouth | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mouth | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | _ | 12 fell | expl |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 heaven | case |
| 16 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 voice | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 spoken | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 spoken | punct |
| 19 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 21 Nebuchadnezzar | discourse |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Nebuchadnezzar | compound |
| 21 | Nebuchadnezzar | Nebuchadnezzar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 spoken | vocative |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spoken | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 thee | case |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 spoken | obl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 spoken | aux:pass |
| 27 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fell | parataxis |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 departed | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kingdom | det |
| 30 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 departed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 departed | aux:pass |
| 32 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fell | parataxis |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 thee | case |
| 34 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 departed | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the word | the king's mouth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | a voice from heaven | there | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present · passive | voice | to thee; king Nebuchadnezzar vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | depart | present · passive | the kingdom | thee | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location |
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
ע֗וֹד מִלְּתָא֙ בְּפֻ֣ם מַלְכָּ֔א קָ֖ל מִן־שְׁמַיָּ֣א נְפַ֑ל לָ֤ךְ אָֽמְרִין֙ נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֔א מַלְכוּתָ֖ה עֲדָ֥ת מִנָּֽךְ׃
Daniel 4:28: 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:137 of Mova's parse database.
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