Numbers 22:12 · JPS 1917
And God said unto Balaam: 'Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed.'
Who acts: God, Thou · What happens: say, not go, not curse, bless · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 22:12 · 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 (God, Thou), 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 | God | God | 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 | _ | 5 Balaam | case |
| 5 | Balaam | Balaam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 8 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 go | nsubj |
| 9 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 curse | punct |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 curse | nsubj |
| 16 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 18 curse | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 curse | advmod |
| 18 | curse | curse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 curse | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 blessed | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 blessed | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 blessed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 blessed | aux:pass |
| 25 | blessed | bless | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 curse | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- disagree
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- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | God | unto Balaam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not go | shall | Thou | with people | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | not curse | shall | thou | the people | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bless | present · passive | people | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶל־בִּלְעָ֔ם לֹ֥א תֵלֵ֖ךְ עִמָּהֶ֑ם לֹ֤א תָאֹר֙ אֶת־הָעָ֔ם כִּ֥י בָר֖וּךְ הֽוּא׃
Numbers 22:12: 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:803 of Mova's parse database.
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