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title: Daniel 9:23 (JPS 1917) — At the beginning of thy supplications a word went forth, and I am co… · tree and pragmatics
description: At the beginning of thy supplications a word went forth, and I am come to declare it; for thou art greatly beloved; therefore look into the word, and understand the vision. Who acts: word, I, thou, thy. Daniel 9:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 9:23 · JPS 1917

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At the beginning of thy supplications a word went forth, and I am come to declare it; for thou art greatly beloved; therefore look into the word, and understand the vision.

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**Who acts:** word, I, thou, thy · **What happens:** go, come, declare, be, look, understand · **To what, where:** beginning, vision, supplications

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This is Daniel 9:23 · 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 (word, I, thou, thy), 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:287
# text = At the beginning of thy supplications a word went forth, and I am come to declare it; for thou art greatly beloved; therefore look into the word, and understand the vision.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	supplications	supplication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
22	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	understand	understand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | a word |  |  |  | at the beginning of thy supplications | forth *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at beginning=Location |
| 2 | **come** | present · passive | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | beginning |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | beloved, greatly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | into the word; therefore *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into word=Theme |
| 6 | **understand** | infinitive |  | the vision |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus |
| 7 | **begin** |  |  | thy supplications |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **supplicate** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom supplication «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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בִּתְחִלַּ֨ת תַּחֲנוּנֶ֜יךָ יָצָ֣א דָבָ֗ר וַאֲנִי֙ בָּ֣אתִי לְהַגִּ֔יד כִּ֥י חֲמוּד֖וֹת אָ֑תָּה וּבִין֙ בַּדָּבָ֔ר וְהָבֵ֖ן בַּמַּרְאֶֽה׃

[Daniel 9:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.23/)

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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:287` 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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