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title: Daniel 4:5 (JPS 1917) — But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazza… · tree and pragmatics
description: But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and I told the dream before him: Who acts: Daniel, name, I, Belteshazzar. Daniel 4:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Daniel 4:5 · JPS 1917

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But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and I told the dream before him:

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**Who acts:** Daniel, name, I, Belteshazzar · **What happens:** come in, be, accord, tell, name · **To what, where:** last, Belteshazzar, spirit, dream, god · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 4:5 · 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 (Daniel, name, I, Belteshazzar), 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:113
# text = But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and I told the dream before him:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Belteshazzar	Belteshazzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	before	before	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
42	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past | Daniel |  |  | the last | before me |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Belteshazzar and the spirit's name | Belteshazzar and the spirit |  |  |  | accord the name of my god | tree rules |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Belteshazzar and the spirit's name *not said here* | the spirit |  | Belteshazzar and the spirit |  | of the holy gods | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | I | the dream |  |  | before dream |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dream=Recipient |
| 6 | **name** |  | Belteshazzar and the spirit |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **name** |  |  | my god |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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וְעַ֣ד אָחֳרֵ֡ין עַל֩ קָֽדָמַ֨י דָּנִיֵּ֜אל דִּֽי־שְׁמֵ֤הּ בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר֙ כְּשֻׁ֣ם אֱלָהִ֔י וְדִ֛י רֽוּחַ־אֱלָהִ֥ין קַדִּישִׁ֖ין בֵּ֑הּ וְחֶלְמָ֖א קָֽדָמ֥וֹהִי אַמְרֵֽת׃

[Daniel 4:5: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.5/)

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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:113` 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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