--- title: Daniel 12:10 (JPS 1917) — Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refi… · tree and pragmatics description: Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but they that are wise shall understand. Who acts: Many, wicked, none, words. 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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 (Many, wicked, none, words), 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:368 # text = Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but they that are wise shall understand. 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 purify purify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 8 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 refined refine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 20 wickedly wickedly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 28 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 nmod _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **purify** | shall | Many | words *= word* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 2 | **make** | infinitive | Many *not said here* | words *= word* | | | | white *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product | | 3 | **refine** | infinitive · passive | Many *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | | 4 | **do** | shall | the wicked | | | | | wickedly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **understand** | shall | none | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | wise *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **understand** | shall | words *= word* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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} יִ֠תְבָּֽרֲרוּ וְיִֽתְלַבְּנ֤וּ וְיִצָּֽרְפוּ֙ רַבִּ֔ים וְהִרְשִׁ֣יעוּ רְשָׁעִ֔ים וְלֹ֥א יָבִ֖ינוּ כָּל־רְשָׁעִ֑ים וְהַמַּשְׂכִּלִ֖ים יָבִֽינוּ׃ [Daniel 12:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.12.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:368` 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 12:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.367/) - next →: [Daniel 12:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.369/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 12:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.12.10/)