Daniel 5:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
forasmuch as a surpassing spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and declaring of riddles, and loosing of knots, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar.
Who acts: king · What happens: surpass, interpret, declare, loose, find, name · To what, where: surpassing spirit, same Daniel
This is Daniel 5:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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 | forasmuch | forasmuch | SCONJ | _ | 28 found | mark |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 1 forasmuch | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spirit | det |
| 4 | surpassing | surpass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 spirit | amod |
| 5 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knowledge | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knowledge | cc |
| 8 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spirit | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 understanding | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 understanding | cc |
| 11 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spirit | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 interpreting | punct |
| 13 | interpreting | interpret | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 spirit | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dreams | case |
| 15 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 interpreting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 declaring | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 declaring | cc |
| 18 | declaring | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 spirit | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 riddles | case |
| 20 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 declaring | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 loosing | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 loosing | cc |
| 23 | loosing | loose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 spirit | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 knots | case |
| 25 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 loosing | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Daniel | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Daniel | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Daniel | amod |
| 32 | Daniel | Daniel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 named | punct |
| 34 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 named | obj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 king | det |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 named | nsubj |
| 37 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 Daniel | acl:relcl |
| 38 | Belteshazzar | Belteshazzar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 named | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surpass | gerund | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | interpret | gerund | of dreams | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | gerund | of riddles | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | loose | gerund | of knots | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | find | past · passive | a surpassing spirit and knowledge and understanding | the same Daniel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 6 | name | past | the king | the same Daniel | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
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
כָּל־קֳבֵ֡ל דִּ֣י ר֣וּחַ ׀ יַתִּירָ֡ה וּמַנְדַּ֡ע וְשָׂכְלְתָנ֡וּ מְפַשַּׁ֣ר חֶלְמִין֩ וַֽאַֽחֲוָיַ֨ת אֲחִידָ֜ן וּמְשָׁרֵ֣א קִטְרִ֗ין הִשְׁתְּכַ֤חַת בֵּהּ֙ בְּדָ֣נִיֵּ֔אל דִּֽי־מַלְכָּ֥א שָׂם־שְׁמֵ֖הּ בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּ֑ר כְּעַ֛ן דָּנִיֵּ֥אל יִתְקְרֵ֖י וּפִשְׁרָ֥ה יְהַֽחֲוֵֽה׃פ
Daniel 5:12: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- forasmuch as a surpassing spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and declaring of riddles, and loosing of knots, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar.
- Now let Daniel be called, and he will declare the interpretation.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DAN:156 of Mova's parse database.
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