--- title: Daniel 3:14 (JPS 1917) — Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them: 'Is it true, O Shadrach, Me… · tree and pragmatics description: Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them: 'Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that ye serve not my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? Who acts: Nebuchadnezzar, it, ye, I. Daniel 3:14 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.88/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN/3/) / [3:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.14/) / JPS 1 # Daniel 3:14 · JPS 1917 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them: 'Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that ye serve not my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? **Who acts:** Nebuchadnezzar, it, ye, I · **What happens:** speak, say, be, not serve, worship, set up · **To what, where:** gods, golden image · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Daniel 3:14 · 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 (Nebuchadnezzar, it, ye, I), 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:88 # text = Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them: 'Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that ye serve not my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? 1 Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 O o INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ _ 14 Shadrach Shadrach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 vocative _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Meshach Meshach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 Abed abed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 21 nego Abed-nego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 25 serve serve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 31 cc _ _ 31 worship worship VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 image image NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obj _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Nebuchadnezzar | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Nebuchadnezzar *not said here* | | | | | unto rage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | it | | | | | Shadrach and Meshach and Abed nego *vocative*; true *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **serve** | present | ye | my gods | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute | | 5 | **worship** | present | ye *not said here* | the golden image | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus | | 6 | **set up** | present · perfect | I | the golden image | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient which=Result | 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} עָנֵ֤ה נְבֻֽכַדְנֶצַּר֙ וְאָמַ֣ר לְה֔וֹן הַצְדָּ֕א שַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֖ךְ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ לֵֽאלָהַ֗י לָ֤א אִֽיתֵיכוֹן֙ פָּֽלְחִ֔ין וּלְצֶ֧לֶם דַּהֲבָ֛א דִּ֥י הֲקֵ֖ימֶת לָ֥א סָֽגְדִֽין׃ [Daniel 3:14: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:88` 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. - ← previous: [Daniel 3:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.87/) - next →: [Daniel 3:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.89/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 3:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.14/)