Daniel 5:8 · JPS 1917

Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.

Who acts: wise men, knees · What happens: come in, not read, make · To what, where: writing, interpretation

This is Daniel 5:8 · 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 (wise men, knees), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 came	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 men	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 men	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 read	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 read	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 read	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 read	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 read	advmod
15	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 writing	det
17	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 read	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 make	cc
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 read	conj
21	known	know	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 make	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 king	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 known	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 interpretation	det
26	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the king's wise men		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not read	could	knees = knee	the writing			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Topic
3	make	infinitive	knees = knee not said here	the interpretation		know property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset interpretation=Product

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

אֱדַ֙יִן֙ עָֽלִּ֔ין כֹּ֖ל חַכִּימֵ֣י מַלְכָּ֑א וְלָֽא־כָהֲלִ֤ין כְּתָבָא֙ לְמִקְרֵ֔א וּפִשְׁרֵ֖הּ לְהוֹדָעָ֥ה לְמַלְכָּֽא׃

Daniel 5:8: 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:152 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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