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title: Daniel 3:23 (JPS 1917) — And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bou… · tree and pragmatics
description: And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Who acts: three men. Daniel 3:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 3:23 · JPS 1917

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And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

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**Who acts:** three men · **What happens:** fall down, bind

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This is Daniel 3:23 · 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 (three 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:97
# text = And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Shadrach	Shadrach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Meshach	Meshach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Abed	Abed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	nego	nego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	burning	burn	ADJ	VBG	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **fall down** | past | this three men |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **bind** | participle | this three men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the midst of the burning fiery furnace | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent into midst=Co-Patient |

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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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וְגֻבְרַיָּ֤א אִלֵּךְ֙ תְּלָ֣תֵּה֔וֹן שַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֖ךְ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ נְפַ֛לוּ לְגֽוֹא־אַתּוּן־נוּרָ֥א יָֽקִדְתָּ֖א מְכַפְּתִֽין׃פ

[Daniel 3:23: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.23/)

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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:97` 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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