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title: Daniel 5:25 (JPS 1917) — And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN. · tree and pragmatics
description: And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN. Who acts: this. Daniel 5:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 5:25 · JPS 1917

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And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** be, inscribe · **To what, where:** writing

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This is Daniel 5:25 · 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 (this), 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:171
# text = And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	MENE	MENE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	MENE	MENE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	TEKEL	TEKEL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	UPHARSIN	UPHARSIN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | this | the writing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **inscribe** | past · passive |  | the writing |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |

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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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וּדְנָ֥ה כְתָבָ֖א דִּ֣י רְשִׁ֑ים מְנֵ֥א מְנֵ֖א תְּקֵ֥ל וּפַרְסִֽין׃

[Daniel 5:25: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.25/)

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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:171` 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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