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title: Daniel 9:21 (JPS 1917) — yea, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had see… · tree and pragmatics
description: yea, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, approached close to me about the time of the evening offering. Who acts: I, man. Daniel 9:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 9:21 · JPS 1917

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yea, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, approached close to me about the time of the evening offering.

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**Who acts:** I, man · **What happens:** speak, see, cause, fly, approach · **To what, where:** prayer, man, vision · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 9:21 · 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, man), 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:285
# text = yea, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, approached close to me about the time of the evening offering.
1	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	31	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
12	Gabriel	Gabriel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	about	about	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · progressive | I |  |  | prayer |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | I | the man |  | the vision at the beginning |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cause** | gerund · passive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **approach** | past | the man |  |  |  | time | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְע֛וֹד אֲנִ֥י מְדַבֵּ֖ר בַּתְּפִלָּ֑ה וְהָאִ֣ישׁ גַּבְרִיאֵ֡ל אֲשֶׁר֩ רָאִ֨יתִי בֶחָז֤וֹן בַּתְּחִלָּה֙ מֻעָ֣ף בִּיעָ֔ף נֹגֵ֣עַ אֵלַ֔י כְּעֵ֖ת מִנְחַת־עָֽרֶב׃

[Daniel 9:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.21/)

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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:285` 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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