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title: Daniel 2:20 (JPS 1917) — Daniel spoke and said: Blessed be the name of God from everlasting e… · tree and pragmatics
description: Daniel spoke and said: Blessed be the name of God from everlasting even unto everlasting; for wisdom and might are His; Who acts: Daniel, wisdom. Daniel 2:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 2:20 · JPS 1917

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Daniel spoke and said: Blessed be the name of God from everlasting even unto everlasting; for wisdom and might are His;

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**Who acts:** Daniel, wisdom · **What happens:** speak, say, bless, be, name · **To what, where:** name, everlasting, secret, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 2:20 · JPS 1917 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 (Daniel, wisdom), 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:42
# text = Daniel spoke and said: Blessed be the name of God from everlasting even unto everlasting; for wisdom and might are His;
1	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	everlasting	everlasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	everlasting	everlasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	might	might	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	advcl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Daniel |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Daniel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bless** | infinitive · passive |  | the name of God |  | everlasting unto everlasting |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | wisdom and might | secret |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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 Aramaic of this verse {#hebrew}

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עָנֵ֤ה דָֽנִיֵּאל֙ וְאָמַ֔ר לֶהֱוֵ֨א שְׁמֵ֤הּ דִּֽי־אֱלָהָא֙ מְבָרַ֔ךְ מִן־עָלְמָ֖א וְעַ֣ד־עָלְמָ֑א דִּ֧י חָכְמְתָ֛א וּגְבוּרְתָ֖א דִּ֥י לֵֽהּ־הִֽיא׃

[Daniel 2:20: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.20/)

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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:42` 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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