Numbers 22:29 · JPS 1917

And Balaam said unto the ass: 'Because thou hast mocked me; I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed thee.'

Who acts: Balaam, thou, I · What happens: say, mock, be, kill · To what, where: me, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 22:29 · 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, thou, 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 said	cc
2	Balaam	Balaam	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 ass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ass	det
6	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 mocked	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 mocked	punct
9	Because	because	SCONJ	_	12 mocked	mark
10	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 mocked	nsubj
11	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mocked	aux
12	mocked	mock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 were	advcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 mocked	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 mocked	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 were	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 were	aux
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 were	expl
18	were	be	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sword	det
20	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 were	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 hand	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sword	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 killed	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 killed	mark
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 killed	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 killed	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 killed	aux
29	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 were	advcl
30	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 killed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Balaam				unto the ass	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mock	present · perfect	thou	me				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	be	would	I		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	kill	past · perfect	I	thee		now		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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 בִּלְעָם֙ לָֽאָת֔וֹן כִּ֥י הִתְעַלַּ֖לְתְּ בִּ֑י ל֤וּ יֶשׁ־חֶ֙רֶב֙ בְּיָדִ֔י כִּ֥י עַתָּ֖ה הֲרַגְתִּֽיךְ׃

Numbers 22:29: 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:820 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.

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