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title: Daniel 2:27 (JPS 1917) — Daniel answered before the king, and said: 'The secret which the kin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Daniel answered before the king, and said: 'The secret which the king hath asked can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor astrologers, declare unto the king; Who acts: Daniel, king, wise men. Daniel 2:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 2:27 · JPS 1917

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Daniel answered before the king, and said: 'The secret which the king hath asked can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor astrologers, declare unto the king;

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**Who acts:** Daniel, king, wise men · **What happens:** answer, say, ask, declare · **To what, where:** secret · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 2:27 · 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 (Daniel, king, wise men), 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:49
# text = Daniel answered before the king, and said: 'The secret which the king hath asked can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor astrologers, declare unto the king;
1	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
19	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc:preconj	_	_
20	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	enchanters	enchanter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	28	cc	_	_
28	astrologers	astrologer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
31	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Daniel |  |  |  | before the king |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Daniel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · perfect | the king | the secret |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | can | wise men and enchanters and magicians nor astrologers | the secret |  |  |  | unto the king | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Attribute |

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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 Aramaic of this verse {#hebrew}

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עָנֵ֧ה דָנִיֵּ֛אל קֳדָ֥ם מַלְכָּ֖א וְאָמַ֑ר רָזָה֙ דִּֽי־מַלְכָּ֣א שָׁאֵ֔ל לָ֧א חַכִּימִ֣ין אָֽשְׁפִ֗ין חַרְטֻמִּין֙ גָּזְרִ֔ין יָכְלִ֖ין לְהַֽחֲוָיָ֥ה לְמַלְכָּֽא׃

[Daniel 2:27: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.27/)

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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:49` 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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