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title: Daniel 5:18 (JPS 1917) — O thou king, God Most High gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdo… · tree and pragmatics
description: O thou king, God Most High gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty; Who acts: God. Daniel 5:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 5:18 · JPS 1917

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O thou king, God Most High gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty;

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** kingdom, Nebuchadnezzar

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This is Daniel 5:18 · 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 (God), 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:164
# text = O thou king, God Most High gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty;
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	High	High	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **give** | past | God | the kingdom and greatness and glory and majesty | Nebuchadnezzar |  |  | thou's king *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent nebuchadnezzar=Recipient kingdom=Theme |

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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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אַ֖נְתְּ מַלְכָּ֑א אֱלָהָא֙ עִלָּאָ֔ה מַלְכוּתָ֤א וּרְבוּתָא֙ וִיקָרָ֣א וְהַדְרָ֔ה יְהַ֖ב לִנְבֻכַדְנֶצַּ֥ר אֲבוּֽךְ׃

[Daniel 5:18: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.18/)

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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:164` 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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