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title: Daniel 10:17 (JPS 1917) — For how can this servant of my lord talk with this my lord? for as f… · tree and pragmatics
description: For how can this servant of my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me.' Who acts: servant, strength, breath. Daniel 10:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 10:17 · JPS 1917

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For how can this servant of my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me.'

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**Who acts:** servant, strength, breath · **What happens:** talk, remain, be, leave · **To what, where:** lord, breath

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This is Daniel 10:17 · 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 (servant, strength, breath), 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:308
# text = For how can this servant of my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me.'
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	straightway	straightway	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
29	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
31	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
32	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | can | this servant of my lord | my lord |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | past | no strength in me |  |  | there |  | as me; straightway *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | breath |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | participle |  | breath *not said here* |  |  |  | in me *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in i=Result |

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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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וְהֵ֣יךְ יוּכַ֗ל עֶ֤בֶד אֲדֹנִי֙ זֶ֔ה לְדַבֵּ֖ר עִם־אֲדֹ֣נִי זֶ֑ה וַאֲנִ֤י מֵעַ֙תָּה֙ לֹֽא־יַעֲמָד־בִּ֣י כֹ֔חַ וּנְשָׁמָ֖ה לֹ֥א נִשְׁאֲרָה־בִֽי׃

[Daniel 10:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.10.17/)

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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:308` 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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