--- title: Daniel and his friends, captives in Babylon, kept God's food laws; S… — Daniel, Jonah and the prophets · tree and pragmatics description: Daniel and his friends, captives in Babylon, kept God's food laws; Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego would not bow to a golden statue and walked unharmed in the fiery furnace; Daniel kept praying despite a law against it and was kept safe in the lions' den, and he read the writing on the wall that warn --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Daniel, Jonah and the prophets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/) / 1 # Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, sentence 1 Daniel and his friends, captives in Babylon, kept God's food laws; Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego would not bow to a golden statue and walked unharmed in the fiery furnace; Daniel kept praying despite a law against it and was kept safe in the lions' den, and he read the writing on the wall that warned a proud king his kingdom would end. **Who acts:** Daniel, Shadrach, God, writing, kingdom · **What happens:** keep, not bow, walk, pray, read, warn · **To what, where:** food laws, fiery furnace, writing, wall, proud king · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Daniel, Jonah and the prophets» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Daniel, Shadrach, God, writing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:010-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets.lesson:1 # text = Daniel and his friends, captives in Babylon, kept God's food laws; Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego would not bow to a golden statue and walked unharmed in the fiery furnace; Daniel kept praying despite a law against it and was kept safe in the lions' den, and he read the writing on the wall that warned a proud king his kingdom would end. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 010-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×3 1 Daniel Daniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 captives captive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 16 Shadrach Shadrach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Meshach Meshach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 20 Abednego Abednego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 bow bow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 statue statue NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 29 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 unharmed unharm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 fiery fiery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 furnace furnace NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 Daniel Daniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 38 praying pray VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 xcomp _ _ 39 despite despite ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 against against ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nmod _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 47 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 xcomp _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nmod:poss _ _ 51 ' 's PART POS _ 50 case _ _ 52 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 55 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ _ 59 on on ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=56:obl 62 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 63 nsubj _ _ 63 warned warn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 58 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=61:acl:relcl 64 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 65 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 66 amod _ _ 66 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obj _ _ 67 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 68 nmod:poss _ _ 68 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 nsubj _ _ 69 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 70 aux _ _ 70 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 63 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=66:acl:relcl 71 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | Daniel and God's friends | God's food laws | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | | 2 | **not** **bow** | would | Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego | | | | | to a golden statue | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to statue=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | past | Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego *not said here* | | | the fiery furnace | | unharm *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in furnace=Trajectory | | 4 | **keep** | past | Daniel | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pray** | gerund | Daniel *not said here* | | | | | despite a law against furnace | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **keep** | past · passive | Daniel *not said here* | | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» | | 7 | **read** | past | God | the writing | | the wall | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Topic | | 8 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | the writing | | a proud king | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | | 9 | **end** | would | God's kingdom | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. 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