--- title: Daniel 2:28 (JPS 1917) — but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and He hath mad… · tree and pragmatics description: but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and He hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the end of days. Who acts: God, secret. 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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 (God, secret), 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:50 # text = but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and He hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the end of days. 1 but but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 revealeth reveal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 16 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | a God in heaven | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **reveal** | present | a God in heaven | secrets | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | | 3 | **make** | present · perfect | secret | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | participle | secret *not said here* | | | | | to the king Nebuchadnezzar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | shall | | | | | in the end; day | | tree rules | 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} בְּרַ֡ם אִיתַ֞י אֱלָ֤הּ בִּשְׁמַיָּא֙ גָּלֵ֣א רָזִ֔ין וְהוֹדַ֗ע לְמַלְכָּא֙ נְבֽוּכַדְנֶצַּ֔ר מָ֛ה דִּ֥י לֶהֱוֵ֖א בְּאַחֲרִ֣ית יוֹמַיָּ֑א חֶלְמָ֨ךְ וְחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשָׁ֛ךְ עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבָ֖ךְ דְּנָ֥ה הֽוּא׃פ [Daniel 2:28: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.28/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and He hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the end of days.** 2. [Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.51/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:50` 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 2:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.49/) - next →: [Daniel 2:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.51/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 2:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.28/)