--- title: Daniel 7:1 (JPS 1917) — In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream a… · tree and pragmatics description: In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed; then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. Who acts: Daniel. 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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 (Daniel), 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:208 # text = In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed; then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 Belshazzar Belshazzar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 Daniel Daniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 visions vision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 19 upon upon ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 matters matter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **have** | past | Daniel | a dream of Daniel's head and visions | | | year | upon Daniel's bed | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | | 2 | **write** | past | Daniel | the dream | | | then | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Daniel *not said here* | the sum of the matters | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sum=Recipient | | 4 | **dream** | | | Daniel's head | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **sum** | | | the matters | | | | | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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} בִּשְׁנַ֣ת חֲדָ֗ה לְבֵלְאשַׁצַּר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶ֔ל דָּנִיֵּאל֙ חֵ֣לֶם חֲזָ֔ה וְחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשֵׁ֖הּ עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבֵ֑הּ בֵּאדַ֙יִן֙ חֶלְמָ֣א כְתַ֔ב רֵ֥אשׁ מִלִּ֖ין אֲמַֽר׃ [Daniel 7:1: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DAN:208` 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 6:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.207/) - next →: [Daniel 7:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.209/) - ↑ back to [Daniel 7:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.1/)