--- title: Daniel 11:23 (JPS 1917) — And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully; and he… · tree and pragmatics description: And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully; and he shall come up and become strong, with a little nation. Who acts: league, strength. 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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 (league, strength), 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:336 # text = And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully; and he shall come up and become strong, with a little nation. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 after after SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 league league NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 deceitfully deceitfully ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 up up ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 20 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | participle | the league | | | | | with strength | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **work** | shall | strength | | | | | deceitfully *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come up** | shall | strength | | | | | with a little nation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **become** | infinitive | strength *not said here* | | | | | strong *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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} וּמִן־הִֽתְחַבְּר֥וּת אֵלָ֖יו יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה מִרְמָ֑ה וְעָלָ֥ה וְעָצַ֖ם בִּמְעַט־גּֽוֹי׃ [Daniel 11:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:336` 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 11:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.335/) - next →: [Daniel 11:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.337/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 11:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.23/)