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title: Daniel 6:3 (JPS 1917) — and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these s… · tree and pragmatics
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# Daniel 6:3 · JPS 1917

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and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account unto them, and that the king should have no damage.

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**Who acts:** Daniel, satraps, king · **What happens:** be, give, have · **To what, where:** one, account, damage

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This is Daniel 6:3 · 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, satraps, 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:179
# text = and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account unto them, and that the king should have no damage.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	presidents	president	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
9	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	satraps	satrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
18	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | past | Daniel | one |  |  |  | of three presidents over satraps | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | might | this satraps | account |  |  |  | unto presidents *= president* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | should | the king | no damage |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=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 Aramaic of this verse {#hebrew}

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וְעֵ֤לָּא מִנְּהוֹן֙ סָרְכִ֣ין תְּלָתָ֔א דִּ֥י דָנִיֵּ֖אל חַֽד־מִנְּה֑וֹן דִּֽי־לֶהֱוֺ֞ן אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֗ין יָהֲבִ֤ין לְהוֹן֙ טַעְמָ֔א וּמַלְכָּ֖א לָֽא־לֶהֱוֵ֥א נָזִֽק׃

[Daniel 6:3: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.3/)

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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:179` 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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