Numbers 22:16 · JPS 1917
And they came to Balaam, and said to him: 'Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor: Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me;
Who acts: princes, Balak, I · What happens: come, say, let, pray, hinder · To what, where: Balaam, nothing, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 22:16 · 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 (princes, Balak, I), 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 came | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Balaam | case |
| 5 | Balaam | Balaam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 saith | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 saith | punct |
| 13 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 saith | advmod |
| 14 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | Balak | Balak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 saith | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 son | det |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Balak | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Zippor | case |
| 19 | Zippor | Zippor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Let | punct |
| 21 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 saith | ccomp |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 Let | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pray | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 pray | nsubj |
| 25 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Let | parataxis |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 pray | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hinder | punct |
| 28 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Let | conj |
| 29 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 hinder | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 coming | mark |
| 31 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 hinder | advcl |
| 32 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 33 me | case |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 coming | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | princes = prince | Balaam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to balaam=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | princes = prince not said here | Balaam | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Balak | thus property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | nothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pray | present | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hinder | infinitive | thee | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer thou=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | come | gerund | unto me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ אֶל־בִּלְעָ֑ם וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ ל֗וֹ כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ בָּלָ֣ק בֶּן־צִפּ֔וֹר אַל־נָ֥א תִמָּנַ֖ע מֵהֲלֹ֥ךְ אֵלָֽי׃
Numbers 22:16: 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:807 of Mova's parse database.
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