Daniel 2:18 · JPS 1917

that they might ask mercy of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Who acts: Daniel · What happens: ask, not perish · To what, where: mercy

This is Daniel 2:18 · 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 (Daniel), 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	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 ask	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 God	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 God	det
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mercy	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 heaven	case
10	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 God	nmod
11	concerning	concern	ADP	_	13 secret	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 secret	det
13	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mercy	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 perish	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 perish	mark
16	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 perish	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 companions	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 companions	nmod:poss
19	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Daniel	conj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 perish	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 perish	advmod
22	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ask	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 rest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rest	det
25	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 perish	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 men	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 men	det
28	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 men	amod
29	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rest	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Babylon	case
31	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 men	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	might	Daniel	mercy of the God of heaven				concern this secret	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mercy=Recipient
2	not perish	should	Daniel and man's companions					with the rest of the wise men of Babylon	vn break_down-45.8 «NP 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

וְרַחֲמִ֗ין לְמִבְעֵא֙ מִן־קֳדָם֙ אֱלָ֣הּ שְׁמַיָּ֔א עַל־רָזָ֖ה דְּנָ֑ה דִּ֣י לָ֤א יְהֹֽבְדוּן֙ דָּנִיֵּ֣אל וְחַבְר֔וֹהִי עִם־שְׁאָ֖ר חַכִּימֵ֥י בָבֶֽל׃

Daniel 2:18: 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:39 of Mova's parse database.

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