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title: Daniel 4:34 (JPS 1917) — Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven;… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven; for all His works are truth, and His ways justice; and those that walk in pride He is able to abase.' Who acts: I, works, understanding, king. Daniel 4:34 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 4:34 · JPS 1917

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Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven; for all His works are truth, and His ways justice; and those that walk in pride He is able to abase.'

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**Who acts:** I, works, understanding, king · **What happens:** praise, extol, honour, be, walk, abase · **To what, where:** King, truth, pride, those

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This is Daniel 4:34 · 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, works, understanding, king), 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:143
# text = Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven; for all His works are truth, and His ways justice; and those that walk in pride He is able to abase.'
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	praise	praise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	extol	extol	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	honour	honour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	orphan	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
27	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	obj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	abase	abase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	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 | **praise** | present | I | the King of heaven |  |  | now |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
| 2 | **extol** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **honour** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | king's works | truth and king's ways |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **walk** | present |  |  |  | pride |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pride=Trajectory |
| 6 | **is** | present | understanding |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **abase** | to-infinitive | understanding *not said here* | those |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 8 | **work** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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כְּעַ֞ן אֲנָ֣ה נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֗ר מְשַׁבַּ֨ח וּמְרוֹמֵ֤ם וּמְהַדַּר֙ לְמֶ֣לֶךְ שְׁמַיָּ֔א דִּ֤י כָל־מַעֲבָד֙וֹהִי֙ קְשֹׁ֔ט וְאֹרְחָתֵ֖הּ דִּ֑ין וְדִי֙ מַהְלְכִ֣ין בְּגֵוָ֔ה יָכִ֖ל לְהַשְׁפָּלָֽה׃פ

[Daniel 4:34: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.34/)

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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:143` of Mova's parse database.

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