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title: Daniel 9:18 (JPS 1917) — O my God, incline Thine ear, and hear; open Thine eyes, and behold o… · tree and pragmatics
description: O my God, incline Thine ear, and hear; open Thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city upon which Thy name is called; for we do not present our supplications before Thee because of our righteousness, but because of Thy great compassions. Who acts: you, we, our, Thy. Daniel 9:18 in JPS 1917
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# Daniel 9:18 · JPS 1917

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O my God, incline Thine ear, and hear; open Thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city upon which Thy name is called; for we do not present our supplications before Thee because of our righteousness, but because of Thy great compassions.

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**Who acts:** you, we, our, Thy · **What happens:** incline, hear, open, behold, call, not present · **To what, where:** ear, eyes, desolations, name, supplications · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 9:18 · 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, we, our, Thy), 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:282
# text = O my God, incline Thine ear, and hear; open Thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city upon which Thy name is called; for we do not present our supplications before Thee because of our righteousness, but because of Thy great compassions.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	incline	incline	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	desolations	desolation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
26	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
36	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	supplications	supplication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	before	before	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	obl	_	_
40	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	43	case	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	fixed	_	_
42	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	50	case	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	fixed	_	_
48	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	compassions	compassion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incline** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thine ear |  |  |  | my God *vocative* | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 2 | **hear** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **open** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Thine eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 4 | **behold** | infinitive | you *not said here* | our desolations and the city |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer desolation=Stimulus |
| 5 | **call** | present · passive |  | Thy name |  |  |  | upon the city | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **not** **present** | present · do-support | we | our supplications |  |  | before Thee | because our righteousness but Thy great compassions | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supplication=Theme |
| 7 | **desolate** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom desolation «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **supplicate** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | 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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הַטֵּ֨ה אֱלֹהַ֥י ׀ אָזְנְךָ֮ וּֽשֲׁמָע֒ פְּקַ֣ח עֵינֶ֗יךָ וּרְאֵה֙ שֹֽׁמְמֹתֵ֔ינוּ וְהָעִ֕יר אֲשֶׁר־נִקְרָ֥א שִׁמְךָ֖ עָלֶ֑יהָ כִּ֣י ׀ לֹ֣א עַל־צִדְקֹתֵ֗ינוּ אֲנַ֨חְנוּ מַפִּילִ֤ים תַּחֲנוּנֵ֙ינוּ֙ לְפָנֶ֔יךָ כִּ֖י עַל־רַחֲמֶ֥יךָ הָרַבִּֽים׃

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