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title: Daniel 1:18 (JPS 1917) — And at the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing… · tree and pragmatics
description: And at the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the chief of the officers brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. Who acts: king, chief. Daniel 1:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 1:18 · JPS 1917

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And at the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the chief of the officers brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

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**Who acts:** king, chief · **What happens:** appoint, bring in · **To what, where:** days, countenances, end

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This is Daniel 1:18 · 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 (king, chief), 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:17
# text = And at the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the chief of the officers brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **appoint** | past · perfect | the king | the days |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 2 | **bring in** | gerund | the king *not said here* | countenances *= countenance* |  |  |  |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Asset |
| 3 | **bring in** | past | the chief of the officers | countenances *= countenance* |  |  | at the end of the days; before Nebuchadnezzar |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Asset |

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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 Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וּלְמִקְצָת֙ הַיָּמִ֔ים אֲשֶׁר־אָמַ֥ר הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ לַהֲבִיאָ֑ם וַיְבִיאֵם֙ שַׂ֣ר הַסָּרִיסִ֔ים לִפְנֵ֖י נְבֻכַדְנֶצַּֽר׃

[Daniel 1:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.18/)

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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:17` 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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