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title: Daniel 1:17 (JPS 1917) — Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in a… · tree and pragmatics
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# Daniel 1:17 · JPS 1917

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Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

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**Who acts:** God, Daniel · **What happens:** give, have · **To what, where:** knowledge, countenances, learning, understanding, visions

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This is Daniel 1:17 · 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 (God, Daniel), 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:16
# text = Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	visions	vision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **give** | past | God | knowledge and skill | countenances *= countenance* | all learning and wisdom | now | as this four youths | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient knowledge=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Daniel | understanding |  | all visions and dreams |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient |

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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 Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וְהַיְלָדִ֤ים הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ אַרְבַּעְתָּ֔ם נָתַ֨ן לָהֶ֧ם הָֽאֱלֹהִ֛ים מַדָּ֥ע וְהַשְׂכֵּ֖ל בְּכָל־סֵ֣פֶר וְחָכְמָ֑ה וְדָנִיֵּ֣אל הֵבִ֔ין בְּכָל־חָז֖וֹן וַחֲלֹמֽוֹת׃

[Daniel 1:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.17/)

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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:16` 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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