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title: Daniel 6:17 (JPS 1917) — Now the king spoke and said unto Daniel: 'Thy God whom thou servest… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the king spoke and said unto Daniel: 'Thy God whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee.' Who acts: king, thou, God. Daniel 6:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 6:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Now the king spoke and said unto Daniel: 'Thy God whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee.'

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**Who acts:** king, thou, God · **What happens:** speak, say, serve, deliver · **To what, where:** God, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 6:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (king, thou, God), 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:194
# text = Now the king spoke and said unto Daniel: 'Thy God whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee.'
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
11	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
15	servest	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- 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 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the king |  |  |  | now |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Daniel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **serve** | present | thou | Thy God |  |  |  | continually *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute |
| 4 | **deliver** | future | Thy God | thee |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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בֵּאדַ֜יִן מַלְכָּ֣א אֲמַ֗ר וְהַיְתִיו֙ לְדָ֣נִיֵּ֔אל וּרְמ֕וֹ לְגֻבָּ֖א דִּ֣י אַרְיָוָתָ֑א עָנֵ֤ה מַלְכָּא֙ וְאָמַ֣ר לְדָנִיֵּ֔אל אֱלָהָ֗ךְ דִּ֣י אַ֤נְתְּ פָּֽלַֽח־לֵהּ֙ בִּתְדִירָ֔א ה֖וּא יְשֵׁיזְבִנָּֽךְ׃

[Daniel 6:17: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.193/)
2. **Now the king spoke and said unto Daniel: 'Thy God whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee.'**

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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:194` 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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