Daniel 1:4 · JPS 1917

youths in whom was no blemish, but fair to look on, and skilful in all wisdom, and skilful in knowledge, and discerning in thought, and such as had ability to stand in the king's palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.

Who acts: youths, king · What happens: be, look on, discern, have, stand, teach · To what, where: blemish, wisdom, thought, ability, palace, learning

This is Daniel 1:4 · 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 (youths, king), 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	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blemish	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 whom	case
3	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 blemish	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blemish	cop
5	no	no	DET	Polarity=Neg PronType=Neg	6 blemish	det
6	blemish	blemish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fair	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 fair	cc
9	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blemish	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 look	mark
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fair	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 look	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 skilful	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 skilful	cc
15	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blemish	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 wisdom	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 wisdom	det
18	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 skilful	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 skilful	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 skilful	cc
21	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 skilful	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 knowledge	case
23	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 skilful	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 discerning	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 discerning	cc
26	discerning	discern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 skilful	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 thought	case
28	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 discerning	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
31	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	33 had	amod
32	as	as	ADP	_	31 such	fixed
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blemish	conj
34	ability	ability	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 stand	mark
36	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 ability	acl
37	in	in	ADP	_	41 palace	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 king	det
39	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 palace	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 king	case
41	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stand	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 teach	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 teach	cc
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 teach	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 teach	nsubj
46	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 teach	aux
47	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 blemish	conj
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 teach	iobj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 learning	det
50	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 teach	obj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 tongue	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 tongue	det
53	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 learning	conj
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 Chaldeans	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Chaldeans	det
56	Chaldeans	Chaldeans	PROPN	Number=Plur	53 tongue	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 blemish	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	youths	no blemish			tree rules
2	be		youths not said here				tree rules
3	look on	to-infinitive	youths not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	be		youths not said here			all wisdom	tree rules
5	discern	gerund	youths not said here			thought	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	have	past	youths not said here	ability			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ability=Patient
7	stand	to-infinitive	youths not said here	ability not said here		the king's palace	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palace=Location
8	teach speech: other	should	king	the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans	youths = youth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient learning=Topic

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 Hebrew of this verse

יְלָדִ֣ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֵֽין־בָּהֶ֣ם כָּל־מוּם֩ וְטוֹבֵ֨י מַרְאֶ֜ה וּמַשְׂכִּילִ֣ים בְּכָל־חָכְמָ֗ה וְיֹ֤דְעֵי דַ֙עַת֙ וּמְבִינֵ֣י מַדָּ֔ע וַאֲשֶׁר֙ כֹּ֣חַ בָּהֶ֔ם לַעֲמֹ֖ד בְּהֵיכַ֣ל הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וּֽלֲלַמְּדָ֥ם סֵ֖פֶר וּלְשׁ֥וֹן כַּשְׂדִּֽים׃

Daniel 1:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DAN:3 of Mova's parse database.

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