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title: Daniel 4:3 (JPS 1917) — Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. Who acts: I, men. Daniel 4:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 4:3 · JPS 1917

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Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.

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**Who acts:** I, men · **What happens:** make, bring in, know, interpret · **To what, where:** decree, wise men, interpretation, dream

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This is Daniel 4:3 · 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 (I, 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:111
# text = Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
22	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | I | a decree |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decree=Product |
| 2 | **bring in** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | all wise men of Babylon |  |  | before me |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Asset |
| 3 | **make** | might | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | participle | men *= man* *not said here* | the interpretation of the dream |  |  |  | unto me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer interpretation=Stimulus |
| 5 | **interpret** |  |  | the dream |  |  |  |  | nom interpretation «cognition transitive»: of=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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וּמִנִּי֙ שִׂ֣ים טְעֵ֔ם לְהַנְעָלָ֣ה קָֽדָמַ֔י לְכֹ֖ל חַכִּימֵ֣י בָבֶ֑ל דִּֽי־פְשַׁ֥ר חֶלְמָ֖א יְהֽוֹדְעֻנַּֽנִי׃

[Daniel 4:3: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.3/)

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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:111` 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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