--- title: Daniel 2:48 (JPS 1917) — Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon. Who acts: king. 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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), 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:72 # text = Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Daniel Daniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 rule rule VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 province province NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 30 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 prefect prefect NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ _ 32 over over ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the king | Daniel | | | then | great *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daniel=Product | | 2 | **give** | past | the king *not said here* | many great gifts | king | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gift=Theme | | 3 | **make** | past | the king *not said here* | king | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **rule** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | | | the whole province of Babylon | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | chief prefect | | | | over all wise men of Babylon | 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} אֱדַ֨יִן מַלְכָּ֜א לְדָנִיֵּ֣אל רַבִּ֗י וּמַתְּנָ֨ן רַבְרְבָ֤ן שַׂגִּיאָן֙ יְהַב־לֵ֔הּ וְהַ֨שְׁלְטֵ֔הּ עַ֖ל כָּל־מְדִינַ֣ת בָּבֶ֑ל וְרַב־סִגְנִ֔ין עַ֖ל כָּל־חַכִּימֵ֥י בָבֶֽל׃ [Daniel 2:48: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.48/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:72` 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 2:47 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.71/) - next →: [Daniel 2:49 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.73/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 2:48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.48/)