Daniel 2:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was surpassing, stood before thee; and the appearance thereof was terrible.
Who acts: image, brightness, appearance · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: thee
This is Daniel 2:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (image, brightness, appearance), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 image | det |
| 2 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mighty | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 mighty | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mighty | cop |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 image | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 surpassing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 surpassing | cc |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 brightness | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surpassing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 surpassing | cop |
| 12 | surpassing | surpassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 image | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 thee | case |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 stood | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 terrible | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 terrible | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 appearance | det |
| 20 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 terrible | nsubj |
| 21 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 20 appearance | advmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 terrible | cop |
| 23 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stood | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this image | mighty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | brightness | surpassing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | this image | thee | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before thou=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the appearance | terrible 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
אַ֣נְתְּהמַלְכָּ֗א חָזֵ֤ה הֲוַ֙יְתָ֙ וַאֲל֨וּ צְלֵ֥ם חַד֙ שַׂגִּ֔יא צַלְמָ֨א דִּכֵּ֥ן רַ֛ב וְזִיוֵ֥הּ יַתִּ֖יר קָאֵ֣ם לְקָבְלָ֑ךְ וְרֵוֵ֖הּ דְּחִֽיל׃
Daniel 2:31: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image.
- This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was surpassing, stood before thee; and the appearance thereof was terrible.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DAN:55 of Mova's parse database.
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