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title: Daniel 3:17 (JPS 1917) — If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, He will deliver us f… · tree and pragmatics
description: If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, He will deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and out of thy hand, O king. Who acts: we, God, Shadrach. Daniel 3:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 3:17 · JPS 1917

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If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, He will deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and out of thy hand, O king.

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**Who acts:** we, God, Shadrach · **What happens:** serve, be, deliver, burn · **To what, where:** God, us, burning fiery furnace

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This is Daniel 3:17 · 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 (we, God, Shadrach), 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:91
# text = If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, He will deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and out of thy hand, O king.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	serve	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
20	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	vocative	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **serve** | present | we | our God |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | our God |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | our God *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 4 | **deliver** | future | Shadrach | us |  | the burning fiery furnace |  | king *vocative* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent we=Theme from furnace=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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 Aramaic of this verse {#hebrew}

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הֵ֣ן אִיתַ֗י אֱלָהַ֙נָא֙ דִּֽי־אֲנַ֣חְנָא פָֽלְחִ֔ין יָכִ֖ל לְשֵׁיזָבוּתַ֑נָא מִן־אַתּ֨וּן נוּרָ֧א יָקִֽדְתָּ֛א וּמִן־יְדָ֥ךְ מַלְכָּ֖א יְשֵׁיזִֽב׃

[Daniel 3:17: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.17/)

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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:91` 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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