Daniel 6:9 · JPS 1917

Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.'

Who acts: you, law · What happens: establish, sign, not change, accord, not alter · To what, where: interdict, writing

This is Daniel 6:9 · 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 (you, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 establish	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 establish	punct
3	O	o	INTJ	_	4 king	discourse
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 establish	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 establish	punct
6	establish	establish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 interdict	det
8	interdict	interdict	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 establish	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sign	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sign	cc
11	sign	sign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 establish	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 writing	det
13	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sign	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 changed	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 changed	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 changed	nsubj:pass
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 changed	aux:pass
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 changed	advmod
19	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sign	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 law	punct
21	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 law	case
22	to	to	ADP	_	21 according	fixed
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 law	det
24	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 changed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Medes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Medes	det
27	Medes	mede	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 law	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Persians	cc
29	Persians	Persian	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 Medes	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 altereth	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 altereth	nsubj
32	altereth	alter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 law	acl:relcl
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 altereth	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 establish	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 establish	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	establish	imperative	you not said here	the interdict	now	king vocative	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interdict=Patient
2	sign	infinitive	you not said here	the writing			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent writing=Destination
3	not change	infinitive · passive		interdict		accord the law of the Medes and Persians	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	not alter	present	the law of the Medes and Persians				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

כְּעַ֣ן מַלְכָּ֔א תְּקִ֥ים אֱסָרָ֖א וְתִרְשֻׁ֣ם כְּתָבָ֑א דִּ֣י לָ֧א לְהַשְׁנָיָ֛ה כְּדָת־מָדַ֥י וּפָרַ֖ס דִּי־לָ֥א תֶעְדֵּֽא׃

Daniel 6:9: 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:185 of Mova's parse database.

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