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title: Daniel 9:3 (JPS 1917) — And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplicat… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. Who acts: I. Daniel 9:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 9:3 · JPS 1917

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And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** set, seek · **To what, where:** face

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This is Daniel 9:3 · 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 (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:267
# text = And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	supplications	supplication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fasting	fasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **set** | past | I | my face |  |  |  | unto the Lord God | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient face=Result |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by prayer and supplications; with fasting and sackcloth and ashes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by prayer=Location |

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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 Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה אֶת־פָּנַ֗י אֶל־אֲדֹנָי֙ הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ תְּפִלָּ֖ה וְתַחֲנוּנִ֑ים בְּצ֖וֹם וְשַׂ֥ק וָאֵֽפֶר׃

[Daniel 9:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.3/)

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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:267` 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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