Daniel 3:16 · JPS 1917

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king: 'O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter.

Who acts: Shadrach, we · What happens: answer, say, have · To what, where: need, thee, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Daniel 3:16 · 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 (Shadrach, we), 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	Shadrach	Shadrach	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 answered	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Meshach	punct
3	Meshach	Meshach	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Shadrach	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nego	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nego	cc
6	Abed	Abed	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 nego	flat
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 nego	punct
8	nego	Nego	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Shadrach	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 king	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
18	O	o	INTJ	_	19 Nebuchadnezzar	discourse
19	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 have	vocative
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 need	det
24	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 answer	mark
26	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 need	acl
27	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 answer	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 matter	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 matter	det
30	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 answer	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Shadrach and Meshach and Abed nego				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Shadrach and Meshach and Abed nego not said here			to the king	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to king=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	have	present	we	no need		Nebuchadnezzar vocative	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
4	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	we not said here	thee	this matter		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality

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

עֲנ֗וֹ שַׁדְרַ֤ךְ מֵישַׁךְ֙ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֔וֹ עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֔וֹ וְאָמְרִ֖ין לְמַלְכָּ֑א נְבֽוּכַדְנֶצַּ֔ר לָֽא־חַשְׁחִ֨ין אֲנַ֧חְנָה עַל־דְּנָ֛ה פִּתְגָ֖ם לַהֲתָבוּתָֽךְ׃

Daniel 3:16: 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:90 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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