--- title: Daniel 3:29 (JPS 1917) — Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language,… · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god that is able to deliver after this sort.' 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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 (I, people, decree, other god), 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:103 # text = Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god that is able to deliver after this sort.' 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 decree decree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 18 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 amiss amiss ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 against against ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Shadrach Shadrach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Meshach Meshach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 Abed Abed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 32 nego nego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 conj _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 dunghill dunghill NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 xcomp _ _ 48 ; ; PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 49 because because SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 50 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 51 expl _ _ 51 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 52 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 54 det _ _ 53 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 55 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 57 nsubj _ _ 56 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 cop _ _ 57 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 acl:relcl _ _ 58 to to PART TO _ 59 mark _ _ 59 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 57 xcomp _ _ 60 after after ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 62 det _ _ 62 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obl _ _ 63 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 64 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | I | a decree | | | | therefore *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decree=Product | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | every people and nation and language | any thing | | | | against the God of Shadrach and Meshach and Abed nego; amiss *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **cut** | shall · passive | a decree *not said here* | every people and nation and language | | pieces | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **make** | shall · passive | | gods's houses | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **be** | present | no other god | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | no other god | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | no other god *not said here* | | | | after this sort | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} וּמִנִּי֮ שִׂ֣ים טְעֵם֒ דִּי֩ כָל־עַ֨ם אֻמָּ֜ה וְלִשָּׁ֗ן דִּֽי־יֵאמַ֤ר שָׁלוּ֙ עַ֣ל אֱלָהֲה֗וֹן דִּֽי־שַׁדְרַ֤ךְ מֵישַׁךְ֙ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֔וֹא עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֔וֹא הַדָּמִ֣ין יִתְעֲבֵ֔ד וּבַיְתֵ֖הּ נְוָלִ֣י יִשְׁתַּוֵּ֑ה כָּל־קֳבֵ֗ל דִּ֣י לָ֤א אִיתַי֙ אֱלָ֣ה אָחֳרָ֔ן דִּֽי־יִכֻּ֥ל לְהַצָּלָ֖ה כִּדְנָֽה׃ [Daniel 3:29: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.29/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:103` 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. - ← previous: [Daniel 3:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.102/) - next →: [Daniel 3:30 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.104/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 3:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.29/)