--- title: Daniel 9:3 — And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplicat… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. Who acts: I. Daniel 9:3 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Daniel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN/) / [chapter 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN/9/) / 9:3 # Daniel 9:3 דָּנִיֵּאל **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** set, seek · **To what, where:** face This is Daniel 9:3 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). 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 — I — and what happens in the verse to face, 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. וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה אֶת־פָּנַ֗י אֶל־אֲדֹנָי֙ הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ תְּפִלָּ֖ה וְתַחֲנוּנִ֑ים בְּצ֖וֹם וְשַׂ֥ק וָאֵֽפֶר׃ [And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.267/) ## 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:53 # text = וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה אֶת־פָּנַ֗י אֶל־אֲדֹנָי֙ הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ תְּפִלָּ֖ה וְתַחֲנוּנִ֑ים בְּצ֖וֹם וְשַׂ֥ק וָאֵֽפֶר׃ # verse = DAN.9.3 1-3 וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DAN_9:3!1|MId=o270090030011|Strong=2050b 2 אֶתְּנ נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 0 root _ Gloss=I|Ref=DAN_9:3!1|MId=o270090030012|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:270090020051;A1:270090030031;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 ָ֣ה ה X _ _ 2 nmod _ Gloss=set|Ref=DAN_9:3!1|MId=o270090030013|Strong=1886j|Type=paragogic_he 4 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=DAN_9:3!2|MId=o270090030021|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 5-6 פָּנַ֗י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 פָּנ פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 2 obj _ Gloss=face|Ref=DAN_9:3!3|MId=o270090030031|Strong=6440 6 ַ֗י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=DAN_9:3!3|MId=o270090030032|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 7 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=DAN_9:3!4|MId=o270090030041|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 8-9 אֲדֹנָי֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 אֲדֹנ אֲדֹנָי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obl _ Gloss=Lord|Ref=DAN_9:3!5|MId=o270090030051|Strong=0136 9 ָי֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=[the]|Ref=DAN_9:3!5|MId=o270090030052|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 10-11 הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הָֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 11 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=DAN_9:3!6|MId=o270090030061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 11 אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 appos _ Gloss=God|Ref=DAN_9:3!6|MId=o270090030062|Strong=0430 12-13 לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=DAN_9:3!7|MId=o270090030071|Strong=3807a 13 בַקֵּ֥שׁ בָּקַשׁ VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 2 advcl _ Gloss=seek|Ref=DAN_9:3!7|MId=o270090030072|Strong=1245|Frame=A0:270090020051;|Type=infinitive_construct 14 תְּפִלָּ֖ה תְּפִלָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 13 obl _ Gloss=prayer|Ref=DAN_9:3!8|MId=o270090030081|Strong=8605 15-16 וְתַחֲנוּנִ֑ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DAN_9:3!9|MId=o270090030091|Strong=2050b 16 תַחֲנוּנִ֑ים תַּחֲנוּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 14 conj _ Gloss=supplications|Ref=DAN_9:3!9|MId=o270090030092|Strong=8469 17-18 בְּצ֖וֹם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=DAN_9:3!10|MId=o270090030101|Strong=0871a 18 צ֖וֹם צוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obl _ Gloss=fasting|Ref=DAN_9:3!10|MId=o270090030102|Strong=6685 19-20 וְשַׂ֥ק _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 20 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DAN_9:3!11|MId=o270090030111|Strong=2050b 20 שַׂ֥ק שַׂק NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 conj _ Gloss=sackcloth|Ref=DAN_9:3!11|MId=o270090030112|Strong=8242 21-22 וָאֵֽפֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 22 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DAN_9:3!12|MId=o270090030121|Strong=2050b 22 אֵֽפֶר אֵפֶר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 conj _ Gloss=ash[es]|Ref=DAN_9:3!12|MId=o270090030122|Strong=0665 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=DAN_9:3!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אֶתְּנ *I* | wayyiqtol · qal | | פָּנ *face* | | | | בַקֵּשׁ *seek* | infinitive construct · piel | | | | | 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 I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.267/) **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). 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