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title: Daniel 5:17 (JPS 1917) — Then Daniel answered and said before the king: 'Let thy gifts be to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Daniel answered and said before the king: 'Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. Who acts: Daniel, gifts, I, thy. Daniel 5:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Daniel 5:17 · JPS 1917

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Then Daniel answered and said before the king: 'Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

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**Who acts:** Daniel, gifts, I, thy · **What happens:** answer, say, let, be, give, read · **To what, where:** gifts, rewards, another, writing, interpretation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 5:17 · 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 (Daniel, gifts, I, thy), 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:163
# text = Then Daniel answered and said before the king: 'Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	11	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	rewards	reward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
37	known	know	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Daniel |  |  |  | then |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Daniel *not said here* |  |  |  | before the king |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | thy gifts |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | thy gifts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to thyself | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive |  | thy rewards | another |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent reward=Theme to another=Recipient |
| 6 | **read** | future | I | the writing |  |  |  | unto the king; nevertheless *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Topic |
| 7 | **make** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the interpretation |  |  |  | know *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset interpretation=Product |
| 8 | **gift** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **reward** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom reward «event 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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בֵּאדַ֜יִן עָנֵ֣ה דָנִיֵּ֗אל וְאָמַר֙ קֳדָ֣ם מַלְכָּ֔א מַתְּנָתָךְ֙ לָ֣ךְ לֶֽהֶוְיָ֔ן וּנְבָ֥זְבְּיָתָ֖ךְ לְאָחֳרָ֣ן הַ֑ב בְּרַ֗ם כְּתָבָא֙ אֶקְרֵ֣א לְמַלְכָּ֔א וּפִשְׁרָ֖א אֲהוֹדְעִנֵּֽהּ׃

[Daniel 5:17: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.17/)

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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:163` 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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