--- title: Daniel 2:26 (JPS 1917) — The king spoke and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar: 'Art… · tree and pragmatics description: The king spoke and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar: 'Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?' Who acts: king, name, thou, I. 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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 (king, name, thou, I), 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:48 # text = The king spoke and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar: 'Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?' 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Daniel Daniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 Belteshazzar Belteshazzar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 15 Art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 17 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 xcomp _ _ 21 unto unto ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 interpretation interpretation NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 33 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the king | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king *not said here* | | Daniel | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daniel=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | past | Belteshazzar's name | Belteshazzar | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | thou | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **know** | participle | thou *not said here* | the dream and the interpretation | | | | unto me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus | | 7 | **see** | present · perfect | I | the dream and the interpretation | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | | 8 | **name** | | Belteshazzar | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} עָנֵ֤ה מַלְכָּא֙ וְאָמַ֣ר לְדָנִיֵּ֔אל דִּ֥י שְׁמֵ֖הּ בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּ֑ר הַֽאִיתָ֣ךְ כָּהֵ֗ל לְהוֹדָעֻתַ֛נִי חֶלְמָ֥א דִֽי־חֲזֵ֖ית וּפִשְׁרֵֽהּ׃ [Daniel 2:26: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:48` 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 2:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.47/) - next →: [Daniel 2:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.49/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 2:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.26/)