--- title: Daniel 11:25 (JPS 1917) — And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of t… · tree and pragmatics description: And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall stir himself up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand, for they shall devise devices against him. Who acts: strength, king, kings. 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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 (strength, king, kings), 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:338 # text = And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall stir himself up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand, for they shall devise devices against him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 stir stir VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 against against ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 stir stir VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 30 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 36 very very ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ _ 40 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 42 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 44 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 for for SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 49 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 50 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 devise devise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 advcl _ _ 52 devices device NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obj _ _ 53 against against ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obl _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **stir up** | shall | strength | strength's power and strength's courage | | | | against the king of the south; with a great army | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition power=Patient | | 2 | **stir up** | shall | the king of the south | strength | | | | to battle with a great army | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition himself=Patient | | 3 | **not** **stand** | shall | strength | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **devise** | shall | kings *= king* | devices | | | | against strength | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent device=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} וְיָעֵר֩ כֹּח֨וֹ וּלְבָב֜וֹ עַל־מֶ֣לֶךְ הַנֶּגֶב֮ בְּחַ֣יִל גָּדוֹל֒ וּמֶ֣לֶךְ הַנֶּ֗גֶב יִתְגָּרֶה֙ לַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה בְּחַֽיִל־גָּד֥וֹל וְעָצ֖וּם עַד־מְאֹ֑ד וְלֹ֣א יַעֲמֹ֔ד כִּֽי־יַחְשְׁב֥וּ עָלָ֖יו מַחֲשָׁבֽוֹת׃ [Daniel 11:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:338` 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 11:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.337/) - next →: [Daniel 11:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.339/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 11:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.25/)