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title: Daniel 2:23 (JPS 1917) — I thank Thee, and praise Thee, O Thou God of my fathers, who hath gi… · tree and pragmatics
description: I thank Thee, and praise Thee, O Thou God of my fathers, who hath given me wisdom and might, and hast now made known unto me what we desired of Thee; for Thou hast made known unto us the king's matter. Who acts: I, fathers, we, Thou. Daniel 2:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Daniel 2:23 · JPS 1917

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I thank Thee, and praise Thee, O Thou God of my fathers, who hath given me wisdom and might, and hast now made known unto me what we desired of Thee; for Thou hast made known unto us the king's matter.

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**Who acts:** I, fathers, we, Thou, matter, king · **What happens:** thank, praise, give, make, know, desire · **To what, where:** Thee, wisdom, me, matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 2:23 · 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 (I, fathers, we, Thou), 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:45
# text = I thank Thee, and praise Thee, O Thou God of my fathers, who hath given me wisdom and might, and hast now made known unto me what we desired of Thee; for Thou hast made known unto us the king's matter.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	praise	praise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	flat	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	might	might	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
28	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	_
29	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	obj	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	obl	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nsubj	_	_
39	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
41	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	xcomp	_	_
42	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	's	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | I | Thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 2 | **praise** | present | I *not said here* | Thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | present · perfect | my fathers | wisdom and might | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wisdom=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present · perfect | my fathers *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | participle | my fathers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **desire** | past | we |  |  |  |  | of Thee | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | present · perfect | Thou | the king's matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **know** | participle | the king's matter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **matter** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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לָ֣ךְ ׀ אֱלָ֣הּ אֲבָהָתִ֗י מְהוֹדֵ֤א וּמְשַׁבַּח֙ אֲנָ֔ה דִּ֧י חָכְמְתָ֛א וּגְבוּרְתָ֖א יְהַ֣בְתְּ לִ֑י וּכְעַ֤ן הֽוֹדַעְתַּ֙נִי֙ דִּֽי־בְעֵ֣ינָא מִנָּ֔ךְ דִּֽי־מִלַּ֥ת מַלְכָּ֖א הוֹדַעְתֶּֽנָא׃

[Daniel 2:23: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.23/)

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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:45` 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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