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title: Daniel 4:30 (JPS 1917) — The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Daniel 4:30 in JPS 1917 with its d
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# Daniel 4:30 · JPS 1917

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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.

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

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:DAN:139
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	oxen	oxen	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	'	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	'	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.30/)

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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:139` 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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