--- title: Daniel 4:27 (JPS 1917) — The king spoke, and said: 'Is not this great Babylon, which I have b… · tree and pragmatics description: The king spoke, and said: 'Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?' Who acts: king, I, majesty. 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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 (king, I, majesty), 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:136 # text = The king spoke, and said: 'Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?' 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 9 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 12 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 21 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 dwelling dwelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 might might NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 glory glory NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: express - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the king | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | | this great Babylon | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **build** | present · perfect | I | this great Babylon | | | | for a royal dwelling place; by the might of my power and the glory of my majesty | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent which=Product for place=Asset | | 5 | **glory** | | my majesty | | | | | | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent | 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} עָנֵ֤ה מַלְכָּא֙ וְאָמַ֔ר הֲלָ֥א דָא־הִ֖יא בָּבֶ֣ל רַבְּתָ֑א דִּֽי־אֲנָ֤ה בֱנַיְתַהּ֙ לְבֵ֣ית מַלְכ֔וּ בִּתְקַ֥ף חִסְנִ֖י וְלִיקָ֥ר הַדְרִֽי׃ [Daniel 4:27: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.27/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:136` 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. - ← previous: [Daniel 4:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.135/) - next →: [Daniel 4:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.137/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 4:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.27/)