Numbers 22:40 · JPS 1917
And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
Who acts: Balak, princes · What happens: sacrifice, send, be · To what, where: oxen, Balaam
This is Numbers 22:40 · 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, princes), 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 sacrificed | cc |
| 2 | Balak | Balak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sacrificed | nsubj |
| 3 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sacrificed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sheep | cc |
| 6 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 oxen | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sent | cc |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sacrificed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Balaam | case |
| 11 | Balaam | Balaam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 princes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 princes | cc |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Balaam | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 princes | det |
| 16 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Balaam | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 him | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 him | cop |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 princes | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sacrificed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sacrifice | past | Balak | oxen and sheep | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ox=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | Balak not said here | Balaam and the princes | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to balaam=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the princes | with Balaam | 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
וַיִּזְבַּ֥ח בָּלָ֖ק בָּקָ֣ר וָצֹ֑אן וַיְשַׁלַּ֣ח לְבִלְעָ֔ם וְלַשָּׂרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר אִתּֽוֹ׃
Numbers 22:40: 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:831 of Mova's parse database.
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