Daniel 6:5 · JPS 1917
Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
Who acts: presidents, Daniel, error · What happens: seek, find, touch, be · To what, where: occasion, kingdom, error
This is Daniel 6:5 · 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 (presidents, Daniel, error), 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 | 7 sought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 presidents | det |
| 3 | presidents | president | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sought | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 satraps | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 satraps | det |
| 6 | satraps | satrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 presidents | conj |
| 7 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sought | xcomp |
| 10 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 Daniel | case |
| 12 | Daniel | Daniel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 touching | mark |
| 14 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 find | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kingdom | det |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touching | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 find | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sought | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 occasion | det |
| 23 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 fault | cc |
| 25 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 occasion | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 was | punct |
| 27 | forasmuch | forasmuch | ADV | _ | 31 faithful | mark |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 forasmuch | fixed |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 faithful | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 faithful | cop |
| 31 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 was | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 faithful | punct |
| 33 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 34 was | cc |
| 34 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sought | conj |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 was | expl |
| 36 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 error | det |
| 37 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 was | nsubj |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 fault | cc |
| 39 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 error | conj |
| 40 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 error | acl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 found | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | the presidents and the satraps | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | the presidents and the satraps not said here | occasion | against Daniel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Topic | |||
| 3 | touch | gerund | the presidents and the satraps not said here | the kingdom | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kingdom=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | could | presidents = president | no occasion nor fault | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Daniel | faithful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | past | any error or fault | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | find | participle | any error or fault not said here | in Daniel | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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
אֱדַ֨יִן סָֽרְכַיָּ֜א וַאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֗א הֲו֨וֹ בָעַ֧יִן עִלָּ֛ה לְהַשְׁכָּחָ֥ה לְדָנִיֵּ֖אל מִצַּ֣ד מַלְכוּתָ֑א וְכָל־עִלָּ֨ה וּשְׁחִיתָ֜ה לָא־יָכְלִ֣ין לְהַשְׁכָּחָ֗ה כָּל־קֳבֵל֙ דִּֽי־מְהֵימַ֣ן ה֔וּא וְכָל־שָׁלוּ֙ וּשְׁחִיתָ֔ה לָ֥א הִשְׁתְּכַ֖חַת עֲלֽוֹהִי׃
Daniel 6:5: 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:181 of Mova's parse database.
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