Daniel 6:6 · JPS 1917

Then said these men: 'We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him in the matter of the law of his God.'

Who acts: men, We, law · What happens: say, not find, find, matter · To what, where: occasion, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Daniel 6:6 · 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 (men, We, law), 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 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 men	det
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	nsubj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 find	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 find	punct
7	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 find	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 find	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 find	advmod
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 occasion	det
12	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj
13	against	against	ADP	_	15 Daniel	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 Daniel	det
15	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 occasion	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 find	punct
17	except	except	SCONJ	_	19 find	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
19	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 find	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	obj
21	against	against	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 matter	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 matter	det
25	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 law	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 law	det
28	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 matter	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 God	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 God	nmod:poss
31	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 law	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	this men			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not find	shall	We	any occasion			against this Daniel	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Topic
3	find	present	we	occasion	the matter of the law of Daniel's God		against Daniel	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	matter		the law of Daniel's God					nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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

אֱ֠דַיִן גֻּבְרַיָּ֤א אִלֵּךְ֙ אָֽמְרִ֔ין דִּ֣י לָ֧א נְהַשְׁכַּ֛ח לְדָנִיֵּ֥אל דְּנָ֖ה כָּל־עִלָּ֑א לָהֵ֕ן הַשְׁכַּ֥חְנָֽה עֲל֖וֹהִי בְּדָ֥ת אֱלָהֵֽהּ׃ס

Daniel 6:6: 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:182 of Mova's parse database.

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