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title: Daniel 6:1 (JPS 1917) — And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and… · tree and pragmatics
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# Daniel 6:1 · JPS 1917

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And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

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**Who acts:** Darius · **What happens:** receive, be · **To what, where:** kingdom

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This is Daniel 6:1 · 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 (Darius), 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:177
# text = And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Darius	Darius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Mede	Mede	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **receive** | past | Darius | the kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | Darius *not said here* |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |

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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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וְדָרְיָ֙וֶשׁ֙ מָֽדָיָ֔אקַבֵּ֖ל מַלְכוּתָ֑א כְּבַ֥ר שְׁנִ֖ין שִׁתִּ֥ין וְתַרְתֵּֽין׃

[Daniel 6:1: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.1/)

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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:177` 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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