--- title: Daniel 11:15 (JPS 1917) — And the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take… · tree and pragmatics description: And the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city; and the arms of the south shall not withstand; and as for his chosen people, there shall be no strength in them to withstand. Who acts: king, arms. 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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 (king, arms), 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:328 # text = And the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city; and the arms of the south shall not withstand; and as for his chosen people, there shall be no strength in them to withstand. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 cast cast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mound mound NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 fortified fortify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 withstand withstand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 35 fixed _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 amod _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 43 expl _ _ 42 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 44 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 45 det _ _ 45 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nmod _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 withstand withstand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 acl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | shall | the king of the north | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cast up** | infinitive | the king of the north *not said here* | a mound | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mound=Product | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | the king of the north *not said here* | a fortified city | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | | 4 | **fortify** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **withstand** | shall | the arms of the south | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **choose** | participle | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **withstand** | to-infinitive | the king of the north *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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} וְיָבֹא֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ הַצָּפ֔וֹן וְיִשְׁפֹּךְ֙ סֽוֹלֲלָ֔ה וְלָכַ֖ד עִ֣יר מִבְצָר֑וֹת וּזְרֹע֤וֹת הַנֶּ֙גֶב֙ לֹ֣א יַעֲמֹ֔דוּ וְעַם֙ מִבְחָרָ֔יו וְאֵ֥ין כֹּ֖חַ לַעֲמֹֽד׃ [Daniel 11:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:328` 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. - ← previous: [Daniel 11:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.327/) - next →: [Daniel 11:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.329/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 11:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.15/)