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title: Daniel 4:24 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by almsgiving, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy prosperity.' Who acts: you, counsel. Daniel 4:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Daniel 4:24 · JPS 1917

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Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by almsgiving, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy prosperity.'

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**Who acts:** you, counsel · **What happens:** let, be, break off, show · **To what, where:** counsel, sins, mercy, poor

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This is Daniel 4:24 · 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 (you, counsel), 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:133
# text = Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by almsgiving, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy prosperity.'
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	almsgiving	almsgiving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	iniquities	iniquity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
27	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lengthening	lengthening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed form=imp, polarity=none, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | my counsel |  |  |  | king *vocative*; wherefore *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | my counsel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto thee; acceptable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **break off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy sins |  |  |  | by almsgiving | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sin=Patient |
| 4 | **show** | gerund | you *not said here* | mercy | the poor |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mercy=Topic to poor=Recipient |

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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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לָהֵ֣ן מַלְכָּ֗א מִלְכִּי֙ יִשְׁפַּ֣ר עֲלָ֔ךְ וַחֲטָאָךְ֙ בְּצִדְקָ֣ה פְרֻ֔ק וַעֲוָיָתָ֖ךְ בְּמִחַ֣ן עֲנָ֑יִן הֵ֛ן תֶּהֱוֵ֥א אַרְכָ֖ה לִשְׁלֵוְתָֽךְ׃

[Daniel 4:24: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.24/)

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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:133` 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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