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title: Daniel 9:2 (JPS 1917) — in the first year of his reign I Daniel meditated in the books, over… · tree and pragmatics
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# Daniel 9:2 · JPS 1917

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in the first year of his reign I Daniel meditated in the books, over the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish for the desolations of Jerusalem seventy years.

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**Who acts:** I, word · **What happens:** meditate, come, accomplish, word, desolate · **To what, where:** books, Jeremiah, LORD, Jerusalem

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This is Daniel 9:2 · 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 (I, word), 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:266
# text = in the first year of his reign I Daniel meditated in the books, over the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish for the desolations of Jerusalem seventy years.
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	meditated	meditate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	whereof	whereof	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	desolations	desolation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **meditate** | past | I |  |  | the books | year | over the number of the years | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | the word of the LORD |  | Jeremiah |  |  | whereof *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **accomplish** | would | word |  |  |  | year | for the desolations of Jerusalem | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **desolate** |  |  | Jerusalem |  |  |  |  | nom desolation «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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בִּשְׁנַ֤ת אַחַת֙ לְמָלְכ֔וֹ אֲנִי֙ דָּֽנִיֵּ֔אל בִּינֹ֖תִי בַּסְּפָרִ֑ים מִסְפַּ֣ר הַשָּׁנִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר הָיָ֤ה דְבַר־יְהוָה֙ אֶל־יִרְמִיָ֣ה הַנָּבִ֔יא לְמַלֹּ֛אות לְחָרְב֥וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם שִׁבְעִ֥ים שָׁנָֽה׃

[Daniel 9:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.2/)

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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:266` 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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