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title: Daniel 3:1 (JPS 1917) — Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was thre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Who acts: Nebuchadnezzar, height. Daniel 3:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 3:1 · JPS 1917

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Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

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**Who acts:** Nebuchadnezzar, height · **What happens:** make, be, set up, image · **To what, where:** image, threescore cubits, height, plain, gold

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This is Daniel 3:1 · 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 (Nebuchadnezzar, height), 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:74
# text = Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
1	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	acl:relcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Dura	Dura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Nebuchadnezzar | a image of gold |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | past | threescore cubits and the breadth's height | threescore cubits and the breadth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set up** | past | Nebuchadnezzar | height |  | the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in plain=Destination |
| 4 | **image** |  |  | gold |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition 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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נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֗א עֲבַד֙ צְלֵ֣ם דִּֽי־דְהַ֔ב רוּמֵהּ֙ אַמִּ֣ין שִׁתִּ֔ין פְּתָיֵ֖הּ אַמִּ֣ין שִׁ֑ת אֲקִימֵהּ֙ בְּבִקְעַ֣ת דּוּרָ֔א בִּמְדִינַ֖ת בָּבֶֽל׃

[Daniel 3:1: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.1/)

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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:74` 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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