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title: Daniel 3:13 (JPS 1917) — Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Who acts: Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel 3:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel 3:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.

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**Who acts:** Nebuchadnezzar · **What happens:** command, bring, rage · **To what, where:** rage, Shadrach · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Daniel 3:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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:86
# text = Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	Shadrach	Shadrach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Meshach	Meshach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	Abed	Abed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	nego	nego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **command** | past | Nebuchadnezzar |  |  | Nebuchadnezzar's rage and fury | then |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nebuchadnezzar *not said here* |  | Shadrach and Meshach and Abed nego |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument shadrach=Destination |
| 3 | **rage** |  | Nebuchadnezzar |  |  |  |  |  | nom rage «feeling 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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בֵּאדַ֤יִן נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר֙ בִּרְגַ֣ז וַחֲמָ֔ה אֲמַר֙ לְהַיְתָיָ֔ה לְשַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֖ךְ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ בֵּאדַ֙יִן֙ גֻּבְרַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֔ךְ הֵיתָ֖יוּ קֳדָ֥ם מַלְכָּֽא׃

[Daniel 3:13: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.13/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.**
2. [Then were these men brought before the king.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.87/)

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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:86` 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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