--- title: Daniel 6:19 (JPS 1917) — Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neit… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were diversions brought before him; and his sleep fled from him. Who acts: king, sleep. 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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, sleep), 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:196 # text = Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were diversions brought before him; and his sleep fled from him. 1 Then then 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 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 fasting fast VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 neither neither CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 17 diversions diversion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 19 before before ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the king | | | king's palace | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **pass** | past | the king *not said here* | | | | night | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fast** | gerund | the king *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bring** | past · passive | | diversions | | | before king | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination | | 5 | **flee** | past | king's sleep | | | | | from king | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **sleep** | | king | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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 Aramaic of this verse {#hebrew} אֱ֠דַיִן אֲזַ֨ל מַלְכָּ֤א לְהֵֽיכְלֵהּ֙ וּבָ֣ת טְוָ֔ת וְדַחֲוָ֖ן לָא־הַנְעֵ֣ל קָֽדָמ֑וֹהִי וְשִׁנְתֵּ֖הּ נַדַּ֥ת עֲלֽוֹהִי׃ [Daniel 6:19: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:196` 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 6:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.195/) - next →: [Daniel 6:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.197/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 6:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.19/)