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title: Daniel 6:25 (JPS 1917) — And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and they had not come to the bottom of the den, when the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces. Who acts: king, li
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# Daniel 6:25 · JPS 1917

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And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and they had not come to the bottom of the den, when the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces.

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**Who acts:** king, lions, men · **What happens:** command, bring, accuse, cast, not come, have · **To what, where:** men, Daniel, den, bottom, mastery, bones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 6:25 · 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 (king, lions, men), 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:203
# text = And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and they had not come to the bottom of the den, when the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	accused	accuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	50	mark	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	mastery	mastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nmod	_	_
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
58	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	60	det:predet	_	_
59	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obj	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	_
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **command** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | past | lions *= lion* |  | that men |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
| 3 | **accuse** | past · perfect | that men | Daniel |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent daniel=Theme |
| 4 | **cast** | past | lions *= lion* | men *= man* |  | the den of lions |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into den=Product |
| 5 | **not** **come** | past · perfect | lions *= lion* |  |  | the bottom of the den |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **have** | past | the lions | the mastery of men |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mastery=Patient |
| 7 | **break** | past | the lions *not said here* | lions's bones |  | pieces |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient |
| 8 | **master** |  |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | nom mastery «cognition transitive»: of=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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וַאֲמַ֣ר מַלְכָּ֗א וְהַיְתִ֞יו גֻּבְרַיָּ֤א אִלֵּךְ֙ דִּֽי־אֲכַ֤לוּ קַרְצ֙וֹהִי֙ דִּ֣י דָֽנִיֵּ֔אל וּלְגֹ֤ב אַרְיָוָתָא֙ רְמ֔וֹ אִנּ֖וּן בְּנֵיה֣וֹן וּנְשֵׁיה֑וֹן וְלָֽא־מְט֞וֹ לְאַרְעִ֣ית גֻּבָּ֗א עַ֠ד דִּֽי־שְׁלִ֤טֽוּ בְהוֹן֙ אַרְיָ֣וָתָ֔א וְכָל־גַּרְמֵיה֖וֹן הַדִּֽקוּ׃

[Daniel 6:25: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.25/)

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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:203` of Mova's parse database.

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