--- title: Daniel 2:46 (JPS 1917) — Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Dani… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odours unto him. Who acts: king, gods. Daniel 2:46 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.70/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Daniel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN/) / [chapter 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN/2/) / [2:46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.46/) / JPS 1 # Daniel 2:46 · JPS 1917 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odours unto him. **Who acts:** king, gods · **What happens:** fall, worship, command, offer · **To what, where:** face, Daniel, offering · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Daniel 2:46 · 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 (king, gods), 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:70 # text = Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odours unto him. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 upon upon ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 worshipped worship VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 Daniel Daniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 odours odour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 unto unto ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | the king | | | king's face | then | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon face=Location | | 2 | **worship** | past | the king *not said here* | Daniel | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daniel=Stimulus | | 3 | **command** | past | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **offer** | should | gods *= god* | a offering and sweet odours | | | | unto king | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent offering=Theme | 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} בֵּ֠אדַיִן מַלְכָּ֤א נְבֽוּכַדְנֶצַּר֙ נְפַ֣ל עַל־אַנְפּ֔וֹהִי וּלְדָנִיֵּ֖אל סְגִ֑ד וּמִנְחָה֙ וְנִ֣יחֹחִ֔ין אֲמַ֖ר לְנַסָּ֥כָה לֵֽהּ׃ [Daniel 2:46: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.46/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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