--- title: Daniel 3:1 — Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was thre… · Aramaic, tree and pragmatics description: Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Who acts: Nebuchadnezzar, height. 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The page gives the verse in Biblical Aramaic as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Aramaic — and its pragmatics: who acts — Nebuchadnezzar, height — and what happens in the verse to image, threescore cubits, height, plain, gold, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 12 chapters of Daniel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֗א עֲבַד֙ צְלֵ֣ם דִּֽי־דְהַ֔ב רוּמֵהּ֙ אַמִּ֣ין שִׁתִּ֔ין פְּתָיֵ֖הּ אַמִּ֣ין שִׁ֑ת אֲקִימֵהּ֙ בְּבִקְעַ֣ת דּוּרָ֔א בִּמְדִינַ֖ת בָּבֶֽל׃ [Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.74/) ## The tree {#tree} This verse is in Biblical Aramaic, as the book has it here; its tree is MACULA's Aramaic tree. Right to left, as it is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc-arc:DAN:46 # text = נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֗א עֲבַד֙ צְלֵ֣ם דִּֽי־דְהַ֔ב רוּמֵהּ֙ אַמִּ֣ין שִׁתִּ֔ין פְּתָיֵ֖הּ אַמִּ֣ין שִׁ֑ת אֲקִימֵהּ֙ בְּבִקְעַ֣ת דּוּרָ֔א בִּמְדִינַ֖ת בָּבֶֽל׃ # verse = DAN.3.1 1 נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר PROPN _ _ 4 nsubj _ Gloss=Nebuchadnezzar|Ref=DAN_3:1!1|MId=o270030010011|Strong=5020|Lang=arc 2-3 מַלְכָּ֗א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 מַלְכּ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 appos _ Gloss=the|Ref=DAN_3:1!2|MId=o270030010021|Strong=4430|Lang=arc 3 ָ֗א א DET _ PronType=Art 2 det _ Gloss=king|Ref=DAN_3:1!2|MId=o270030010022|Strong=0001b|Lang=arc|Type=definite_article 4 עֲבַד֙ עֲבַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PEAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.made|Ref=DAN_3:1!3|MId=o270030010031|Strong=5648|Lang=arc|Frame=A0:270030010011;A1:270030010041;|Type=qatal 5 צְלֵ֣ם צְלֵם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 obj _ Gloss=an.image|Ref=DAN_3:1!4|MId=o270030010041|Strong=6755|Lang=arc 6 דִּֽי־ דִּי SCONJ _ _ 7 mark _ Gloss=(diy).of|Ref=DAN_3:1!5|MId=o270030010051|Strong=1768|Lang=arc|Type=relative|SpaceAfter=No 7 דְהַ֔ב דְּהַב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 acl:relcl _ Gloss=gold|Ref=DAN_3:1!6|MId=o270030010061|Strong=1722|Lang=arc 8-9 רוּמֵהּ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 רוּמ רוּם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Gloss=height|Ref=DAN_3:1!7|MId=o270030010071|Strong=7314|Lang=arc 9 ֵהּ֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=its|Ref=DAN_3:1!7|MId=o270030010072|Strong=1886h|Lang=arc|Type=pronominal 10 אַמִּ֣ין אַמָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Gloss=[was].cubits|Ref=DAN_3:1!8|MId=o270030010081|Strong=0521|Lang=arc 11 שִׁתִּ֔ין שִׁתִּין NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 10 nummod _ Gloss=sixty|Ref=DAN_3:1!9|MId=o270030010091|Strong=8361|Lang=arc|Type=cardinal_number 12-13 פְּתָיֵ֖הּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 פְּתָי פְּתָי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Gloss=width|Ref=DAN_3:1!10|MId=o270030010101|Strong=6613|Lang=arc 13 ֵ֖הּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=its|Ref=DAN_3:1!10|MId=o270030010102|Strong=1886h|Lang=arc|Type=pronominal 14 אַמִּ֣ין אַמָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Gloss=[was].cubits|Ref=DAN_3:1!11|MId=o270030010111|Strong=0521|Lang=arc 15 שִׁ֑ת שֵׁת NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 14 nummod _ Gloss=six|Ref=DAN_3:1!12|MId=o270030010121|Strong=8353|Lang=arc|Type=cardinal_number 16-17 אֲקִימֵהּ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 אֲקִימ קוּם VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=APHEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 parataxis _ Gloss=he|Ref=DAN_3:1!13|MId=o270030010131|Strong=6966|Lang=arc|Frame=A0:270030010011;A1:270030010132;|Type=qatal 17 ֵהּ֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ Gloss=set.it.up|Ref=DAN_3:1!13|MId=o270030010132|Strong=1886h|Lang=arc|Type=pronominal 18-19 בְּבִקְעַ֣ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=DAN_3:1!14|MId=o270030010141|Strong=0871b|Lang=arc 19 בִקְעַ֣ת בִּקְעָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=the.plain|Ref=DAN_3:1!14|MId=o270030010142|Strong=1236|Lang=arc 20 דּוּרָ֔א דּוּרָא PROPN _ _ 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Dura|Ref=DAN_3:1!15|MId=o270030010151|Strong=1757|Lang=arc 21-22 בִּמְדִינַ֖ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=DAN_3:1!16|MId=o270030010161|Strong=0871b|Lang=arc 22 מְדִינַ֖ת מְדִינָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=the.province|Ref=DAN_3:1!16|MId=o270030010162|Strong=4083|Lang=arc 23 בָּבֶֽל בָּבֶל PROPN _ _ 22 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Babylon|Ref=DAN_3:1!17|MId=o270030010171|Strong=0895|Lang=arc|SpaceAfter=No 24 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=DAN_3:1!17 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | עֲבַד *he made* | qatal · peal | נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר *Nebuchadnezzar* | צְלֵם *an image* | | | | אֲקִימ *he* | qatal · aphel | נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר *Nebuchadnezzar* | ֵהּ *set it up* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.74/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). Hebrew sentence `wlc-arc:DAN:46`. - ← previous: [Daniel 2:49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.49/) - next →: [Daniel 3:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.2/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN/3/)