--- title: Daniel 4:13 (JPS 1917) — Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be give… · tree and pragmatics description: Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him. Who acts: you, heart. Daniel 4:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.121/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Daniel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN/4/) / [4:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.13/) / JPS 1 # Daniel 4:13 · JPS 1917 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him. **Who acts:** you, heart · **What happens:** let, change, give, pass · **To what, where:** heart This is Daniel 4:13 · 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 (you, heart), 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:121 # text = Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him. 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 xcomp _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 xcomp _ _ 18 unto unto ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 23 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 over over ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | flesh's heart | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **change** | infinitive · passive | flesh's heart *not said here* | | | | | from man | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: from man=Initial\_State | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a beast's heart | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | infinitive · passive | a beast's heart *not said here* | | | | | unto flesh | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V» | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pass** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | time | over flesh | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over he=Location | 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} לִבְבֵהּ֙ מִן־אֲנָשָׁ֣א יְשַׁנּ֔וֹן וּלְבַ֥ב חֵיוָ֖ה יִתְיְהִ֣ב לֵ֑הּ וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה עִדָּנִ֖ין יַחְלְפ֥וּן עֲלֽוֹהִי׃ [Daniel 4:13: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:121` 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 4:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.120/) - next →: [Daniel 4:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.122/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 4:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.13/)