--- title: Daniel 5:6 (JPS 1917) — Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts aff… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts affrighted him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. Who acts: thoughts, knees, king. 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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 (thoughts, knees, king), 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:149 # text = Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts affrighted him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 countenance countenance NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 affrighted affright VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 joints joint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 loins loin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 loosed loose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 smote smite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 30 one one PRON NN PronType=Ind 29 obj _ _ 31 against against ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 another another PRON DT PronType=Ind 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | past · passive | | the king's countenance | | | then | in king | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **affright** | past | king's thoughts | king | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **loose** | past · passive | | the joints of king's loins | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **smite** | past | king's knees | one | | | | against another | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent one=Instrument against another=Patient | | 5 | **think** | | king | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} אֱדַ֤יִן מַלְכָּא֙ זִיוֺ֣הִי שְׁנ֔וֹהִי וְרַעיֹנֹ֖הִייְבַהֲלוּנֵּ֑הּ וְקִטְרֵ֤י חַרְצֵהּ֙ מִשְׁתָּרַ֔יִן וְאַ֨רְכֻבָּתֵ֔הּ דָּ֥א לְדָ֖א נָֽקְשָֽׁן׃ [Daniel 5:6: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:149` 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 5:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.148/) - next →: [Daniel 5:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.150/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 5:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.6/)