Daniel 2:8 · JPS 1917

The king answered and said: 'I know of a truth that ye would gain time, inasmuch as ye see the thing is certain with me,

Who acts: king, I, ye, thing · What happens: answer, say, know, gain, see, be · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Daniel 2:8 · 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 (king, I, ye, thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 truth	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 truth	det
12	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 know	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 gain	mark
14	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 gain	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 gain	aux
16	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 truth	acl
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gain	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
19	inasmuch	inasmuch	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 inasmuch	fixed
21	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 know	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thing	det
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 certain	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 certain	cop
26	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 see	ccomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 certain	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the king				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the king not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present	I			of a truth	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of truth=Stimulus
4	gain	would	ye	a truth not said here	time		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme
5	see	present	ye				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	the thing			with me; certain property	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

עָנֵ֤ה מַלְכָּא֙ וְאָמַ֔ר מִן־יַצִּיב֙ יָדַ֣ע אֲנָ֔ה דִּ֥י עִדָּנָ֖א אַנְתּ֣וּן זָבְנִ֑ין כָּל־קֳבֵל֙ דִּ֣י חֲזֵית֔וֹן דִּ֥י אַזְדָּ֖א מִנִּ֥י מִלְּתָֽא׃

Daniel 2:8: 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:29 of Mova's parse database.

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