Numbers 22:4 · JPS 1917

And Moab said unto the elders of Midian: 'Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.' — And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. —

Who acts: Moab, multitude, ox, Balak · What happens: say, lick up, be · To what, where: all, grass, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 22:4 · 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 (Moab, multitude, ox, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	Moab	Moab	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 elders	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elders	det
6	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Midian	case
8	Midian	Midian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 elders	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 lick	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 lick	punct
11	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 lick	advmod
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 lick	aux
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 multitude	det
14	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lick	nsubj
15	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 lick	compound:prt
17	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	15 lick	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 round	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 round	cop
20	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 all	acl:relcl
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 round	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 licketh	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 licketh	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ox	det
26	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 licketh	nsubj
27	licketh	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lick	advcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 licketh	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 grass	det
30	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 licketh	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 field	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 field	det
33	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grass	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
36	—	-	PUNCT	_	44 king	punct
37	And	and	CCONJ	_	44 king	cc
38	Balak	Balak	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 king	nsubj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 son	det
40	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Balak	appos
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 Zippor	case
42	Zippor	Zippor	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 son	nmod
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 king	cop
44	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 Moab	case
46	Moab	Moab	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 king	nmod
47	at	at	ADP	_	49 time	case
48	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 time	det
49	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 king	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
51	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Moab			unto the elders of Midian	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lick up	future	this multitude	all	now		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent all=Source
3	is	present				about us; round property	tree rules
4	lick up	present	the ox	the grass of the field			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent grass=Source
5	is a	past	Balak	king	time	of Moab	tree rules

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

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר מוֹאָ֜ב אֶל־זִקְנֵ֣י מִדְיָ֗ן עַתָּ֞ה יְלַחֲכ֤וּ הַקָּהָל֙ אֶת־כָּל־סְבִ֣יבֹתֵ֔ינוּ כִּלְחֹ֣ךְ הַשּׁ֔וֹר אֵ֖ת יֶ֣רֶק הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה וּבָלָ֧ק בֶּן־צִפּ֛וֹר מֶ֥לֶךְ לְמוֹאָ֖ב בָּעֵ֥ת הַהִֽוא׃

Numbers 22:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NUM:795 of Mova's parse database.

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