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title: Daniel 6:14 (JPS 1917) — Then answered they and said before the king: 'That Daniel, who is of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then answered they and said before the king: 'That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the interdict that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.' Who acts: men, Daniel, thou, king. Daniel 6:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency
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# Daniel 6:14 · JPS 1917

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Then answered they and said before the king: 'That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the interdict that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.'

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**Who acts:** men, Daniel, thou, king · **What happens:** answer, say, be, not regard, sign, make · **To what, where:** thee, interdict, petition · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 6:14 · 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 (men, Daniel, thou, 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:190
# text = Then answered they and said before the king: 'That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the interdict that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	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	:	_	25	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
11	That	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
12	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	regardeth	regard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
27	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	interdict	interdict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obj	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
37	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	maketh	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:unmarked	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
49	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- 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 | men *= man* |  |  |  | then |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  | before the king |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | Daniel |  |  |  |  | of the children; of the captivity of Judah | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **regard** | present | Daniel | thee |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 5 | **sign** | present · perfect | thou | the interdict |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Destination |
| 6 | **make** | present | Daniel *not said here* | king's petition |  |  | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset petition=Product |
| 7 | **petition** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom petition «communication 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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בֵּ֠אדַיִן עֲנ֣וֹ וְאָמְרִין֮ קֳדָ֣ם מַלְכָּא֒ דִּ֣י דָנִיֵּ֡אל דִּי֩ מִן־בְּנֵ֨י גָלוּתָ֜א דִּ֣י יְה֗וּד לָא־שָׂ֨ם עֲלָ֤ךְ מַלְכָּא֙ טְעֵ֔ם וְעַל־אֱסָרָ֖א דִּ֣י רְשַׁ֑מְתָּ וְזִמְנִ֤ין תְּלָתָה֙ בְּיוֹמָ֔א בָּעֵ֖א בָּעוּתֵֽהּ׃

[Daniel 6:14: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.14/)

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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:190` 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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