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title: Daniel 3:28 (JPS 1917) — Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said: 'Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Mesh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said: 'Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent His angel, and delivered His servants that trusted in Him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. Who a
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# Daniel 3:28 · JPS 1917

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Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said: 'Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent His angel, and delivered His servants that trusted in Him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

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**Who acts:** Nebuchadnezzar, God, servants, gods, king · **What happens:** speak, say, be, send, deliver, trust · **To what, where:** angel, servants, word, bodies, god · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 3:28 · 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 (Nebuchadnezzar, God, servants, gods), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:DAN:102
# text = Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said: 'Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent His angel, and delivered His servants that trusted in Him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
1	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Blessed	blessed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Shadrach	Shadrach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Meshach	Meshach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	Abed	Abed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	nego	nego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
24	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
29	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	yielded	yield	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
54	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
55	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	56	cc	_	_
56	worship	worship	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	conj	_	_
57	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	58	det	_	_
58	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
60	except	except	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
61	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
62	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Nebuchadnezzar |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Nebuchadnezzar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | the God of Shadrach and Meshach and Abed nego |  |  |  |  | blessed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **send** | present · perfect | the God of Shadrach and Meshach and Abed nego | Nebuchadnezzar's angel |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angel=Theme |
| 5 | **deliver** | participle | the God of Shadrach and Meshach and Abed nego *not said here* | Nebuchadnezzar's servants |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient |
| 6 | **trust** | past | Nebuchadnezzar's servants |  |  |  |  | in Nebuchadnezzar | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **change** | present · perfect | Nebuchadnezzar's servants *not said here* | the king's word |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 8 | **yield** | present · perfect | Nebuchadnezzar's servants *not said here* | gods's bodies |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **serve** | might | gods *= god* |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **worship** | infinitive | gods *= god* *not said here* | any god |  |  |  | except gods's own God | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |
| 11 | **word** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#hebrew}

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עָנֵ֨ה נְבֽוּכַדְנֶצַּ֜ר וְאָמַ֗ר בְּרִ֤יךְ אֱלָהֲהוֹן֙ דִּֽי־שַׁדְרַ֤ךְ מֵישַׁךְ֙ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֔וֹ עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֔וֹ דִּֽי־שְׁלַ֤ח מַלְאֲכֵהּ֙ וְשֵׁיזִ֣ב לְעַבְד֔וֹהִי דִּ֥י הִתְרְחִ֖צוּ עֲל֑וֹהִי וּמִלַּ֤ת מַלְכָּא֙ שַׁנִּ֔יו וִיהַ֣בוּ גֶשְׁמְה֗וֹןדִּ֠י לָֽא־יִפְלְח֤וּן וְלָֽא־יִסְגְּדוּן֙ לְכָל־אֱלָ֔הּ לָהֵ֖ן לֵאלָֽהֲהֽוֹן׃

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:102` of Mova's parse database.

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