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title: Daniel 5:12 (JPS 1917) — forasmuch as a surpassing spirit, and knowledge, and understanding,… · tree and pragmatics
description: forasmuch as a surpassing spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and declaring of riddles, and loosing of knots, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Who acts: king. Daniel 5:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Daniel 5:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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forasmuch as a surpassing spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and declaring of riddles, and loosing of knots, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** surpass, interpret, declare, loose, find, name · **To what, where:** surpassing spirit, same Daniel

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This is Daniel 5:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (king), 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:156
# text = forasmuch as a surpassing spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and declaring of riddles, and loosing of knots, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar.
1	forasmuch	forasmuch	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	surpassing	surpass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	amod	_	_
5	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	interpreting	interpret	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	declaring	declare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	riddles	riddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	loosing	loose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	knots	knot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	Belteshazzar	Belteshazzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surpass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **interpret** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of dreams | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of riddles | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **loose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of knots | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **find** | past · passive |  | a surpassing spirit and knowledge and understanding |  | the same Daniel |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 6 | **name** | past | the king | the same Daniel |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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כָּל־קֳבֵ֡ל דִּ֣י ר֣וּחַ ׀ יַתִּירָ֡ה וּמַנְדַּ֡ע וְשָׂכְלְתָנ֡וּ מְפַשַּׁ֣ר חֶלְמִין֩ וַֽאַֽחֲוָיַ֨ת אֲחִידָ֜ן וּמְשָׁרֵ֣א קִטְרִ֗ין הִשְׁתְּכַ֤חַת בֵּהּ֙ בְּדָ֣נִיֵּ֔אל דִּֽי־מַלְכָּ֥א שָׂם־שְׁמֵ֖הּ בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּ֑ר כְּעַ֛ן דָּנִיֵּ֥אל יִתְקְרֵ֖י וּפִשְׁרָ֥ה יְהַֽחֲוֵֽה׃פ

[Daniel 5:12: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **forasmuch as a surpassing spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and declaring of riddles, and loosing of knots, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar.**
2. [Now let Daniel be called, and he will declare the interpretation.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.157/)

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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:156` of Mova's parse database.

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