--- title: Daniel 1:20 (JPS 1917) — And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquir… · tree and pragmatics description: And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his realm. Who acts: king, magicians, wisdom. 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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, magicians, wisdom), 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:19 # text = And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his realm. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 matters matter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 wisdom wisdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 understanding understanding NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 inquired inquire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 xcomp _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 26 det:predet _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 magicians magician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 enchanters enchanter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 realm realm NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 acl:relcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | the king | all matters of wisdom and understanding | | | | of countenances *= countenance* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of they=Recipient | | 2 | **find** | past | king | countenances *= countenance* | | all matters of wisdom and understanding | | good *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 3 | **is** | past | all magicians and enchanters | | | king's realm | | | tree rules | | 4 | **matter** | | wisdom and understanding | | | | | | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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} וְכֹ֗ל דְּבַר֙ חָכְמַ֣ת בִּינָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־בִּקֵּ֥שׁ מֵהֶ֖ם הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַֽיִּמְצָאֵ֞ם עֶ֣שֶׂר יָד֗וֹת עַ֤ל כָּל־הַֽחַרְטֻמִּים֙ הָֽאַשָּׁפִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּכָל־מַלְכוּתֽוֹ׃ [Daniel 1:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:19` 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. - ← previous: [Daniel 1:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.18/) - next →: [Daniel 1:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.20/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 1:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.20/)