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title: Daniel 4:28 (JPS 1917) — While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heav… · tree and pragmatics
description: While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven: 'O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: the kingdom is departed from thee. Who acts: word, voice. Daniel 4:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 4:28 · JPS 1917

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While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven: 'O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: the kingdom is departed from thee.

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**Who acts:** word, voice · **What happens:** be, fall, speak, depart · **To what, where:** mouth, voice, kingdom, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 4:28 · 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 (word, voice), 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:137
# text = While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven: 'O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: the kingdom is departed from thee.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	_	12	expl	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
19	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	vocative	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	obl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the word |  |  | the king's mouth |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | a voice from heaven |  |  | there |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | voice |  |  |  | to thee; king Nebuchadnezzar *vocative* | tree rules |
| 4 | **depart** | present · passive |  | the kingdom |  | thee |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |

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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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ע֗וֹד מִלְּתָא֙ בְּפֻ֣ם מַלְכָּ֔א קָ֖ל מִן־שְׁמַיָּ֣א נְפַ֑ל לָ֤ךְ אָֽמְרִין֙ נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֔א מַלְכוּתָ֖ה עֲדָ֥ת מִנָּֽךְ׃

[Daniel 4:28: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.28/)

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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:137` 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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