Joshua 24:9 · JPS 1917
Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel; and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you.
Who acts: Balak · What happens: arise, fight, send, call, curse · To what, where: Balaam, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Joshua 24:9 · 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 (Balak), 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 | Then | then | ADV | _ | 12 arose | advmod |
| 2 | Balak | Balak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Balak | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Zippor | case |
| 6 | Zippor | Zippor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Balak | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Moab | case |
| 10 | Moab | Moab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 12 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fought | cc |
| 14 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arose | conj |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 Israel | case |
| 16 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fought | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sent | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sent | nsubj |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arose | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 called | cc |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sent | conj |
| 23 | Balaam | Balaam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 son | det |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Balaam | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Beor | case |
| 27 | Beor | Beor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 son | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 curse | mark |
| 29 | curse | curse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 called | advcl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 curse | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | Balak | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | Balak not said here | against Israel | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | send | past | Balak | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | call | past | Balak not said here | Balaam | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent balaam=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | curse | to-infinitive | Balak not said here | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Hebrew of this verse
וַיָּ֨קָם בָּלָ֤ק בֶּן־צִפּוֹר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ מוֹאָ֔ב וַיִּלָּ֖חֶם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח וַיִּקְרָ֛א לְבִלְעָ֥ם בֶּן־בְּע֖וֹר לְקַלֵּ֥ל אֶתְכֶֽם׃
Joshua 24:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOS:656 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.656/