Numbers 22:30 · JPS 1917
And the ass said unto Balaam: 'Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden all thy life long unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee?' And he said: 'Nay.'
Who acts: ass, I, thou · What happens: say, not be, ride, be, do · To what, where: ass, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 22:30 · 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 (ass, I, 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ass | det |
| 3 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 Balaam | case |
| 6 | Balaam | Balaam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 ass | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 ass | punct |
| 9 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ass | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 ass | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ass | nsubj |
| 12 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 ass | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ridden | punct |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 ridden | obl |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 ridden | nsubj |
| 18 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 ridden | aux |
| 19 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 ass | acl:relcl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 life | det:predet |
| 21 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ridden | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 life | advmod |
| 24 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ridden | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 ass | punct |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 wont | cop |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 wont | nsubj |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 wont | advmod |
| 31 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ass | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 do | mark |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 wont | xcomp |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 do | advmod |
| 35 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 36 thee | case |
| 36 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 do | obl |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 31 wont | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 wont | punct |
| 39 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 said | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 said | nsubj |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 42 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 Nay | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 Nay | punct |
| 44 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 41 said | ccomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 Nay | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 Nay | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the ass | unto Balaam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | I | thine ass | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ride | present · perfect | thou | thy life | day | upon thine ass | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 4 | is | past | I | ever | wont property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | unto thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | ass | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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
וַתֹּ֨אמֶר הָאָת֜וֹן אֶל־בִּלְעָ֗ם הֲלוֹא֩ אָנֹכִ֨י אֲתֹֽנְךָ֜ אֲשֶׁר־רָכַ֣בְתָּ עָלַ֗י מֵעֽוֹדְךָ֙ עַד־הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֔ה הַֽהַסְכֵּ֣ן הִסְכַּ֔נְתִּי לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת לְךָ֖ כֹּ֑ה וַיֹּ֖אמֶר לֹֽא׃
Numbers 22:30: 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:821 of Mova's parse database.
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