Daniel 5:5 · JPS 1917

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.

Who acts: fingers, king, hand · What happens: come, write over, see, write · To what, where: palm

This is Daniel 5:5 · 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 (fingers, king, hand), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 hour	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hour	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hour	amod
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 hand	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hand	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 man	case
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fingers	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wrote	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wrote	cc
15	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
16	over	over	ADV	_	15 wrote	advmod
17	against	against	ADP	_	19 candlestick	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 candlestick	det
19	candlestick	candlestick	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wrote	obl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 plaster	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 plaster	det
22	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wrote	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 wall	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wall	det
25	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plaster	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 palace	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 palace	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 king	case
30	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wall	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 saw	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 saw	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 king	det
34	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 saw	nsubj
35	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 palm	det
37	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 saw	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 hand	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hand	det
40	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 palm	nmod
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 wrote	nsubj
42	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 hand	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	fingers of a man's hand		hour	forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write over	past	fingers of a man's hand not said here			against the candlestick; upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; over property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	the king	the palm of the hand			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palm=Stimulus
4	write	past	the hand				vn scribble-25.2-1 «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 Aramaic of this verse

בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָ֗ה נְפַ֙קָה֙ אֶצְבְּעָן֙ דִּ֣י יַד־אֱנָ֔שׁ וְכָֽתְבָן֙ לָקֳבֵ֣ל נֶבְרַשְׁתָּ֔א עַל־גִּירָ֕א דִּֽי־כְתַ֥ל הֵיכְלָ֖א דִּ֣י מַלְכָּ֑א וּמַלְכָּ֣א חָזֵ֔ה פַּ֥ס יְדָ֖ה דִּ֥י כָתְבָֽה׃

Daniel 5:5: 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:148 of Mova's parse database.

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