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title: Daniel 3:20 (JPS 1917) — And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his army to bind Sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Who acts: form, certain mighty men. Daniel 3:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 3:20 · JPS 1917

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And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

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**Who acts:** form, certain mighty men · **What happens:** command, be, bind, cast · **To what, where:** certain mighty men, army, Shadrach, gods, burning fiery furnace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 3:20 · 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 (form, certain mighty 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:94
# text = And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
14	Shadrach	Shadrach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
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	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
21	nego	Abed-nego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	burning	burn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **command** | past | form | certain mighty men |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | certain mighty men |  |  | form's army |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bind** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | form *not said here* | Shadrach and Meshach and Abed nego |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadrach=Patient |
| 4 | **cast** | to-infinitive | form *not said here* | gods *= god* |  | the burning fiery furnace |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into furnace=Product |

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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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וּלְגֻבְרִ֤ין גִּבָּֽרֵי־חַ֙יִל֙ דִּ֣י בְחַיְלֵ֔הּ אֲמַר֙ לְכַפָּתָ֔ה לְשַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֖ךְ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ לְמִרְמֵ֕א לְאַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃

[Daniel 3:20: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.20/)

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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:94` 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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