Daniel 6:23 · JPS 1917
My God hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before Him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.'
Who acts: God, lions, I · What happens: send, shut, not hurt, find, do · To what, where: angel, mouths, me, innocency, hurt
This is Daniel 6:23 · 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 (God, lions, I), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 God | nmod:poss |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 angel | nmod:poss |
| 6 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shut | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shut | cc |
| 9 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shut | aux |
| 10 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sent | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lions | det |
| 12 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 lions | case |
| 14 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shut | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hurt | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hurt | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hurt | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 hurt | advmod |
| 20 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sent | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 hurt | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 found | punct |
| 23 | forasmuch | forasmuch | ADV | _ | 25 before | fixed |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 before | fixed |
| 25 | before | before | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 found | mark |
| 26 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 found | obl |
| 27 | innocency | innocency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 found | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 found | aux:pass |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sent | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 found | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 done | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 done | cc |
| 34 | also | also | ADV | _ | 43 done | advmod |
| 35 | before | before | ADP | _ | 36 thee | case |
| 36 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 done | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 king | punct |
| 38 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 39 king | discourse |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thee | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thee | punct |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 done | aux |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 done | nsubj |
| 43 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sent | conj |
| 44 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 45 hurt | det |
| 45 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 done | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect | My God | God's angel | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shut | present · perfect | My God not said here | the lions's mouths | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not hurt | present · perfect | lions = lion | me | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | past · passive | innocency | in me; God obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do | present · perfect | I | no hurt | before thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Eventuality |
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
אֱלָהִ֞י שְׁלַ֣ח מַלְאֲכֵ֗הּ וּֽסֲגַ֛ר פֻּ֥ם אַרְיָוָתָ֖א וְלָ֣א חַבְּל֑וּנִי כָּל־קֳבֵ֗ל דִּ֤י קָֽדָמ֙וֹהִי֙ זָכוּ֙ הִשְׁתְּכַ֣חַת לִ֔י וְאַ֤ף קָֽדָמָךְ֙ מַלְכָּ֔א חֲבוּלָ֖ה לָ֥א עַבְדֵֽת׃
Daniel 6:23: 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:200 of Mova's parse database.
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