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title: Daniel 9:17 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore, O our God, hearken unto the prayer of Thy servant, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore, O our God, hearken unto the prayer of Thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause Thy face to shine upon Thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. Who acts: you, face, sanctuary, servant. Daniel 9:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Daniel 9:17 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore, O our God, hearken unto the prayer of Thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause Thy face to shine upon Thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

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**Who acts:** you, face, sanctuary, servant, God · **What happens:** hearken, cause, shine, be, pray, supplicate · **To what, where:** face, sanctuary

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This is Daniel 9:17 · 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 (you, face, sanctuary, servant), 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:281
# text = Now therefore, O our God, hearken unto the prayer of Thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause Thy face to shine upon Thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	supplications	supplication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | unto the prayer of Thy servant and God's supplications; our God *vocative*; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cause** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Thy face |  |  |  | for the Lord's sake | tree rules |
| 3 | **shine** | to-infinitive | Thy face *not said here* |  |  | Thy sanctuary |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sanctuary=Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | Thy sanctuary |  |  |  |  | desolate *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pray** |  | Thy servant |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **supplicate** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom supplication «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְעַתָּ֣ה ׀ שְׁמַ֣ע אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ אֶל־תְּפִלַּ֤ת עַבְדְּךָ֙ וְאֶל־תַּ֣חֲנוּנָ֔יו וְהָאֵ֣ר פָּנֶ֔יךָ עַל־מִקְדָּשְׁךָ֖ הַשָּׁמֵ֑ם לְמַ֖עַן אֲדֹנָֽי׃

[Daniel 9:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.17/)

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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:281` 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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