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title: Daniel 5:4 (JPS 1917) — They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bra… · tree and pragmatics
description: They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. Who acts: vessels. Daniel 5:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 5:4 · JPS 1917

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They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

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**Who acts:** vessels · **What happens:** drink, praise · **To what, where:** wine, gods

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This is Daniel 5:4 · 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 (vessels), 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:147
# text = They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | vessels *= vessel* | wine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
| 2 | **praise** | past | vessels *= vessel* *not said here* | the gods of gold and silver and brass and iron and wood and stone |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |

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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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אִשְׁתִּ֖יו חַמְרָ֑א וְ֠שַׁבַּחוּ לֵֽאלָהֵ֞י דַּהֲבָ֧א וְכַסְפָּ֛א נְחָשָׁ֥א פַרְזְלָ֖א אָעָ֥א וְאַבְנָֽא׃

[Daniel 5:4: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.4/)

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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:147` 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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