Numbers 22:37 · JPS 1917
And Balak said unto Balaam: 'Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?'
Who acts: Balak, I, thou · What happens: say, not send, call, not come, not be, promote · To what, where: thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 22:37 · 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 (Balak, 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Balak | Balak | 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 | _ | 12 send | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 send | punct |
| 8 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 send | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 send | nsubj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 send | advmod |
| 11 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 12 send | advmod |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 14 thee | case |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 send | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 call | mark |
| 16 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 send | advcl |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 call | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 send | punct |
| 19 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 camest | advmod |
| 20 | camest | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 camest | nsubj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 camest | advmod |
| 23 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 camest | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 camest | punct |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 able | cop |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 able | nsubj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 able | advmod |
| 29 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | parataxis |
| 30 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 29 able | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 promote | mark |
| 32 | promote | promote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 able | xcomp |
| 33 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 promote | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 honour | mark |
| 35 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 promote | advcl |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 able | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=ask, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Balak | unto Balaam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not send | past · do-support | I | unto thee; earnestly property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | to-infinitive | I not said here | thee | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not come | past | thou | unto me; wherefore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not is | present | I | able, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | promote | to-infinitive | I not said here | thee | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 7 | honour | to-infinitive | I not said here | tree rules |
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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר בָּלָ֜ק אֶל־בִּלְעָ֗ם הֲלֹא֩ שָׁלֹ֨חַ שָׁלַ֤חְתִּי אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ לִקְרֹא־לָ֔ךְ לָ֥מָּה לֹא־הָלַ֖כְתָּ אֵלָ֑י הַֽאֻמְנָ֔ם לֹ֥א אוּכַ֖ל כַּבְּדֶֽךָ׃
Numbers 22:37: 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:828 of Mova's parse database.
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