Daniel 1:8 · JPS 1917

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the officers that he might not defile himself.

Who acts: Daniel, chief · What happens: purpose, not defile, drink, request · To what, where: heart, chief, wine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Daniel 1:8 · 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 (Daniel, chief), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 purposed	cc
2	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 purposed	nsubj
3	purposed	purpose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 heart	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heart	nmod:poss
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 purposed	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 defile	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 defile	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 defile	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 defile	advmod
11	defile	defile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 purposed	ccomp
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 defile	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 food	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 food	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 king	case
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 defile	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wine	punct
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 wine	cc
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 wine	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wine	det
22	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 food	conj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 drank	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drank	nsubj
25	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 wine	acl:relcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 requested	punct
27	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	29 requested	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 requested	nsubj
29	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 purposed	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 chief	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 chief	det
32	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 requested	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 officers	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 officers	det
35	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 chief	nmod
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 defile	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 defile	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 defile	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 defile	advmod
40	defile	defile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 requested	ccomp
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 defile	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 purposed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	purpose speech: other	past	Daniel		chief's heart		vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not defile	would	chief	chief		with the king's food nor the wine	tree rules
3	drink	past	chief	the wine			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	request	past	chief			of the chief of the officers; therefore property	vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not defile	might	chief	chief			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 Hebrew of this verse

וַיָּ֤שֶׂם דָּנִיֵּאל֙ עַל־לִבּ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יִתְגָּאַ֛ל בְּפַתְבַּ֥ג הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וּבְיֵ֣ין מִשְׁתָּ֑יו וַיְבַקֵּשׁ֙ מִשַּׂ֣ר הַסָּרִיסִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר לֹ֥א יִתְגָּאָֽל׃

Daniel 1:8: 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:7 of Mova's parse database.

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