Numbers 22:18 · JPS 1917
And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak: 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do any thing, small or great.
Who acts: Balaam, Balak, I · What happens: answer, say, give, not go, do, word · To what, where: house, me, word, thing, LORD · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 22:18 · 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 (Balaam, 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 answered | cc |
| 2 | Balaam | Balaam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 6 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 8 servants | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 servants | det |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Balak | case |
| 10 | Balak | Balak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 servants | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 13 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 14 | Balak | Balak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 silver | case |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 full | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gold | cc |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 silver | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 go | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 go | advmod |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 30 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 32 word | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 word | det |
| 32 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 go | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 LORD | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 LORD | det |
| 35 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 word | nmod |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 God | nmod:poss |
| 37 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 LORD | appos |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 do | punct |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 do | mark |
| 40 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | advcl |
| 41 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 thing | det |
| 42 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 do | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 small | punct |
| 44 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 thing | amod |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 great | cc |
| 46 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 small | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Balaam | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Balaam not said here | unto the servants of Balak | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give a condition, not said to happen | would | Balak | Balak's house | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient house=Theme | |||
| 4 | not go | can | I | the word of the LORD | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond word=Location | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | any thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | word | the LORD | nom word «communication 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 Hebrew of this verse
וַיַּ֣עַן בִּלְעָ֗ם וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־עַבְדֵ֣י בָלָ֔ק אִם־יִתֶּן־לִ֥י בָלָ֛ק מְלֹ֥א בֵית֖וֹ כֶּ֣סֶף וְזָהָ֑ב לֹ֣א אוּכַ֗ל לַעֲבֹר֙ אֶת־פִּי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֔י לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת קְטַנָּ֖ה א֥וֹ גְדוֹלָֽה׃
Numbers 22:18: 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:809 of Mova's parse database.
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