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title: Daniel 7:20 (JPS 1917) — and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell; even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose appearance was greater than that of its fellows. Who acts: ten horns, other horn, three, horn. Daniel 7:20 in JP
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# Daniel 7:20 · JPS 1917

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and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell; even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose appearance was greater than that of its fellows.

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**Who acts:** ten horns, other horn, three, horn, mouth, appearance · **What happens:** be, come up, fall, have, speak · **To what, where:** head, other horn, eyes, great things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 7:20 · 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 (ten horns, other horn, three, horn), 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:228
# text = and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell; even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose appearance was greater than that of its fellows.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	concerning	concern	ADP	VBG	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RP	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	acl:relcl	_	_
45	than	than	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the ten horns and the other horn |  |  | truth's head |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come up** | past | the other horn |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | three |  |  | the other horn |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before which=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | that horn and a mouth | eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | a mouth | great things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | appearance |  |  |  |  | than a mouth; great *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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וְעַל־קַרְנַיָּ֤א עֲשַׂר֙ דִּ֣י בְרֵאשַׁ֔הּ וְאָחֳרִי֙ דִּ֣י סִלְקַ֔ת וּנְפַ֥לָה מִן־קֳדָמַ֖הּ תְּלָ֑ת וְקַרְנָ֨א דִכֵּ֜ן וְעַיְנִ֣ין לַ֗הּ וְפֻם֙ מְמַלִּ֣ל רַבְרְבָ֔ן וְחֶזְוַ֖הּ רַ֥ב מִן־חַבְרָתַֽהּ׃

[Daniel 7:20: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.20/)

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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:228` 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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