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title: Daniel 4:6 (JPS 1917) — O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spi… · tree and pragmatics
description: O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret causeth thee trouble, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof. Who acts: I, spirit, secret, you. Daniel 4:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree
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# Daniel 4:6 · JPS 1917

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O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret causeth thee trouble, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.

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**Who acts:** I, spirit, secret, you, my · **What happens:** know, be, cause, tell, see, dream · **To what, where:** thee, trouble, visions, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 4:6 · 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, spirit, secret, you), 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:114
# text = O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret causeth thee trouble, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Belteshazzar	Belteshazzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	ccomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	causeth	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	iobj	_	_
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	visions	vision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
45	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | the spirit of the holy gods |  |  | thee |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | present | no secret | trouble | thee |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer thou=Theme trouble=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the visions of my dream and the interpretation | me |  |  | Belteshazzar *vocative* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient vision=Topic |
| 5 | **see** | present · perfect | I | the visions of my dream and the interpretation |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 6 | **dream** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר֮ רַ֣ב חַרְטֻמַיָּא֒ דִּ֣י ׀ אֲנָ֣ה יִדְעֵ֗ת דִּ֠י ר֣וּחַ אֱלָהִ֤ין קַדִּישִׁין֙ בָּ֔ךְ וְכָל־רָ֖ז לָא־אָנֵ֣ס לָ֑ךְ חֶזְוֵ֨י חֶלְמִ֧י דִֽי־חֲזֵ֛ית וּפִשְׁרֵ֖הּ אֱמַֽר׃

[Daniel 4:6: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.6/)

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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:114` 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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