Daniel 7:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this.
Who acts: I · What happens: come, stand by, ask · To what, where: truth, spirit
This is Daniel 7:16 · 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADV | _ | 9 stood | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 truth | det |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 17 | concerning | concern | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 this | det:predet |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 truth | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | I | unto one of visions; near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand by | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | I not said here | the truth | spirit | concern this | tree rules |
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
קִרְבֵ֗ת עַל־חַד֙ מִן־קָ֣אֲמַיָּ֔א וְיַצִּיבָ֥א אֶבְעֵֽא־מִנֵּ֖הּ עַֽל־כָּל־דְּנָ֑ה וַאֲמַר־לִ֕י וּפְשַׁ֥ר מִלַּיָּ֖א יְהוֹדְעִנַּֽנִי׃
Daniel 7:16: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this.
- So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things:
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DAN:223 of Mova's parse database.
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