Daniel 4:30 · JPS 1917

The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

Who acts: same hour, body · What happens: be, fulfil, drive, eat, grow · To what, where: thing, same hour, king, grass, hair

This is Daniel 4:30 · 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 (same hour, body), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hour	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hour	amod
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hour	acl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 Nebuchadnezzar	case
9	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fulfilled	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 driven	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 driven	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 driven	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 driven	aux:pass
14	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thing	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 men	case
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 driven	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eat	cc
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 eat	aux
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 driven	conj
21	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 oxen	case
23	oxen	oxen	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eat	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wet	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wet	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 body	nmod:poss
27	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wet	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wet	cop
29	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eat	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 dew	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dew	det
32	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wet	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 heaven	case
34	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dew	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 grown	punct
36	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 grown	mark
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hair	nmod:poss
38	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 grown	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 grown	aux:pass
40	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 wet	advcl
41	like	like	ADP	_	44 feathers	case
42	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 feathers	nmod:poss
43	'	's	PART	_	42 eagles	case
44	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 grown	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 nails	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 nails	cc
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 nails	nmod:poss
48	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 grown	conj
49	like	like	ADP	_	52 claws	case
50	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 claws	nmod:poss
51	'	's	PART	_	50 birds	case
52	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 nails	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the same hour	the thing		tree rules
2	fulfil	participle		the same hour not said here	upon Nebuchadnezzar	tree rules
3	drive	past · passive		king	from men	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from man=Trajectory
4	eat	past · do-support		grass	as oxen	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
5	is	past	king's body		with the dew of heaven; wet property	tree rules
6	grow	past · passive		king's hair	like eagles's feathers	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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

בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָ֗א מִלְּתָא֮ סָ֣פַת עַל־נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר֒ וּמִן־אֲנָשָׁ֣א טְרִ֔יד וְעִשְׂבָּ֤א כְתוֹרִין֙ יֵאכֻ֔ל וּמִטַּ֥ל שְׁמַיָּ֖א גִּשְׁמֵ֣הּ יִצְטַבַּ֑ע עַ֣ד דִּ֥י שַׂעְרֵ֛הּ כְּנִשְׁרִ֥ין רְבָ֖ה וְטִפְר֥וֹהִי כְצִפְּרִֽין׃

Daniel 4:30: 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:139 of Mova's parse database.

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