Daniel 4:7 · JPS 1917

Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.

Who acts: I, height · What happens: be, see, behold · To what, where: visions, tree, midst

This is Daniel 4:7 · 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 (I, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 visions	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 visions	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 visions	det
4	visions	vision	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 visions	nmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bed	nmod:poss
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 visions	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 visions	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 behold	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 behold	cc
16	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 saw	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 behold	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 midst	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 midst	det
21	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 behold	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 earth	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 earth	det
24	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 midst	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 great	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 great	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 height	det
28	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 great	nsubj
29	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	28 height	advmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 great	cop
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 visions	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 visions	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the visions		of my head; upon my bed; thus property	tree rules
2	see	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	behold	infinitive	I not said here	a tree	the midst of the earth		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
4	is	past	the height			great property	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

וְחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשִׁ֖י עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבִ֑י חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֔ית וַאֲל֥וּ אִילָ֛ן בְּג֥וֹא אַרְעָ֖א וְרוּמֵ֥הּ שַׂגִּֽיא׃

Daniel 4:7: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DAN:115 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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