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title: Daniel 6:2 (JPS 1917) — It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satra… · tree and pragmatics
description: It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom; Who acts: hundred satraps. Daniel 6:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 6:2 · JPS 1917

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It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

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**Who acts:** hundred satraps · **What happens:** pleased, set over, be · **To what, where:** Mede, kingdom

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This is Daniel 6:2 · 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 (hundred satraps), 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:178
# text = It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	expl	_	_
2	pleased	pleased	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Darius	Darius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	csubj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
13	satraps	satrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
18	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	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 | **pleased** | past |  | Mede |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set over** | to-infinitive |  | the kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient satrap=Result |
| 3 | **is** | should | hundred satraps |  |  |  | throughout the whole kingdom |  | 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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שְׁפַר֙ קֳדָ֣ם דָּרְיָ֔וֶשׁ וַהֲקִים֙ עַל־מַלְכוּתָ֔א לַאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֖א מְאָ֣ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֑ין דִּ֥י לֶהֱוֺ֖ן בְּכָל־מַלְכוּתָֽא׃

[Daniel 6:2: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.2/)

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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:178` 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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