--- title: Daniel 1:20 — And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquir… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his realm. Who acts: king, magicians, wisdom. 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The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — king, magicians, wisdom — and what happens in the verse to matters, countenances, realm, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 12 chapters of Daniel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וְכֹ֗ל דְּבַר֙ חָכְמַ֣ת בִּינָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־בִּקֵּ֥שׁ מֵהֶ֖ם הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַֽיִּמְצָאֵ֞ם עֶ֣שֶׂר יָד֗וֹת עַ֤ל כָּל־הַֽחַרְטֻמִּים֙ הָֽאַשָּׁפִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּכָל־מַלְכוּתֽוֹ׃ [And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his realm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.19/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:DAN:19 # text = וְכֹ֗ל דְּבַר֙ חָכְמַ֣ת בִּינָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־בִּקֵּ֥שׁ מֵהֶ֖ם הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַֽיִּמְצָאֵ֞ם עֶ֣שֶׂר יָד֗וֹת עַ֤ל כָּל־הַֽחַרְטֻמִּים֙ הָֽאַשָּׁפִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּכָל־מַלְכוּתֽוֹ׃ # verse = DAN.1.20 1-2 וְכֹ֗ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DAN_1:20!1|MId=o270010200011|Strong=2050b 2 כֹ֗ל כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 dislocated _ Gloss=every|Ref=DAN_1:20!1|MId=o270010200012|Strong=3605 3 דְּבַר֙ דָּבָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 compound:smixut _ Gloss=matter|Ref=DAN_1:20!2|MId=o270010200021|Strong=1697 4 חָכְמַ֣ת חׇכְמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.wisdom|Ref=DAN_1:20!3|MId=o270010200031|Strong=2451 5 בִּינָ֔ה בִּינָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 4 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.understanding|Ref=DAN_1:20!4|MId=o270010200041|Strong=0998 6 אֲשֶׁר־ אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 7 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=DAN_1:20!5|MId=o270010200051|Strong=0834|Type=relative|SpaceAfter=No 7 בִּקֵּ֥שׁ בָּקַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 acl:relcl _ Gloss=he.sought|Ref=DAN_1:20!6|MId=o270010200061|Strong=1245|Frame=A0:270010200082;A1:270010200021;|Type=qatal 8-9 מֵהֶ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=DAN_1:20!7|MId=o270010200071|Strong=4480 9 הֶ֖ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ Gloss=them|Ref=DAN_1:20!7|MId=o270010200072|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 10-11 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 11 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=DAN_1:20!8|MId=o270010200081|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 11 מֶּ֑לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Gloss=king|Ref=DAN_1:20!8|MId=o270010200082|Strong=4428 12-14 וַֽיִּמְצָאֵ֞ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וַֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DAN_1:20!9|MId=o270010200091|Strong=2050b 13 יִּמְצָא מָצָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he|Ref=DAN_1:20!9|MId=o270010200092|Strong=4672|Frame=A0:270010200082;A1:270010200093;|Type=wayyiqtol 14 ֵ֞ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ Gloss=found.them|Ref=DAN_1:20!9|MId=o270010200093|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 15 עֶ֣שֶׂר עֶשֶׂר NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 16 nummod _ Gloss=ten|Ref=DAN_1:20!10|MId=o270010200101|Strong=6235|Type=cardinal_number 16 יָד֗וֹת יָד NOUN _ Number=Plur 13 xcomp _ Gloss=hands|Ref=DAN_1:20!11|MId=o270010200111|Strong=3027 17 עַ֤ל עַל ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=above|Ref=DAN_1:20!12|MId=o270010200121|Strong=5921 18 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 nmod _ Gloss=all|Ref=DAN_1:20!13|MId=o270010200131|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 19-20 הַֽחַרְטֻמִּים֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 הַֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 20 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=DAN_1:20!14|MId=o270010200141|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 20 חַרְטֻמִּים֙ חַרְטֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=soothsayer-priests|Ref=DAN_1:20!14|MId=o270010200142|Strong=2748 21-22 הָֽאַשָּׁפִ֔ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 הָֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 22 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=DAN_1:20!15|MId=o270010200151|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 22 אַשָּׁפִ֔ים אַשָּׁף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 20 conj _ Gloss=conjurers|Ref=DAN_1:20!15|MId=o270010200152|Strong=0825 23 אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 25 mark _ Gloss=who|Ref=DAN_1:20!16|MId=o270010200161|Strong=0834|Type=relative 24-25 בְּכָל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 25 case _ Gloss=[were].in|Ref=DAN_1:20!17|MId=o270010200171|Strong=0871a 25 כָל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 acl:relcl _ Gloss=all|Ref=DAN_1:20!17|MId=o270010200172|Strong=3605 26-27 מַלְכוּתֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 26 מַלְכוּת מַלְכוּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 25 compound:smixut _ Gloss=kingdom|Ref=DAN_1:20!18|MId=o270010200181|Strong=4438 27 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=DAN_1:20!18|MId=o270010200182|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 28 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 27 punct _ Ref=DAN_1:20!18 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | בִּקֵּשׁ *he sought* | qatal · piel | מֶּלֶךְ *king* | דְּבַר *matter* | | | | יִּמְצָא *he* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֶּלֶךְ *king* | ֵם *found them* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his realm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.19/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). Hebrew sentence `wlc:DAN:19`. - ← previous: [Daniel 1:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.19/) - next →: [Daniel 1:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.21/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN/1/)