--- title: Daniel 8:27 (JPS 1917) — And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and… · tree and pragmatics description: And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was appalled at the vision, but understood it not. Who acts: I. 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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 (I), 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:264 # text = And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was appalled at the vision, but understood it not. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Daniel Daniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 fainted faint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 appalled appall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 vision vision NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 understood understand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **faint** | past | I | | | | | | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | past | I *not said here* | sick certain days | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **rise up** | past | I | | | | then | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** | past | I *not said here* | the king's business | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality | | 5 | **appall** | past · passive | | I | | the vision | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 6 | **not** **understand** | past | | vision | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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} וַאֲנִ֣י דָנִיֵּ֗אל נִהְיֵ֤יתִי וְנֶֽחֱלֵ֙יתִי֙ יָמִ֔ים וָאָק֕וּם וָאֶֽעֱשֶׂ֖ה אֶת־מְלֶ֣אכֶת הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וָאֶשְׁתּוֹמֵ֥ם עַל־הַמַּרְאֶ֖ה וְאֵ֥ין מֵבִֽין׃פ [Daniel 8:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.27/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:264` 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 8:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.263/) - next →: [Daniel 9:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.265/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 8:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.27/)