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title: Daniel 11:2 (JPS 1917) — Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the four… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all; and when he is waxed strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece. Who acts: three kings, fourth, Persia. Daniel 11:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the 
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# Daniel 11:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all; and when he is waxed strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

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**Who acts:** three kings, fourth, Persia · **What happens:** stand up, be, wax, stir up · **To what, where:** Persia, riches, all

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This is Daniel 11:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (three kings, fourth, Persia), 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:315
# text = Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all; and when he is waxed strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	waxed	wax	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
29	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	all	all	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	36	obj	_	_
39	against	against	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	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 | **stand up** | shall | three kings in Persia |  |  | there | yet |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | shall | the fourth |  |  |  |  | than kings *= king*; far, rich *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wax** | present · passive |  | Persia |  | Persia's riches |  | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **stir up** | shall | Persia | all |  |  |  | against the realm of Greece | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition all=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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וְעַתָּ֕ה אֱמֶ֖ת אַגִּ֣יד לָ֑ךְ הִנֵּה־עוֹד֩ שְׁלֹשָׁ֨ה מְלָכִ֜ים עֹמְדִ֣ים לְפָרַ֗ס וְהָֽרְבִיעִי֙ יַעֲשִׁ֤יר עֹֽשֶׁר־גָּדוֹל֙ מִכֹּ֔ל וּכְחֶזְקָת֣וֹ בְעָשְׁר֔וֹ יָעִ֣יר הַכֹּ֔ל אֵ֖ת מַלְכ֥וּת יָוָֽן׃

[Daniel 11:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And now will I declare unto thee the truth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.314/)
2. **Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all; and when he is waxed strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.**

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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:315` 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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