Numbers 23:4 · JPS 1917
And God met Balaam; and he said unto Him: 'I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.'
Who acts: God, Balaam, I · What happens: meet, say, prepare, offer up · To what, where: Balaam, seven altars, bullock, altar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 23:4 · 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 (God, Balaam, 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 met | cc |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Balaam | Balaam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | conj |
| 9 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 10 Him | case |
| 10 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 prepared | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 prepared | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 prepared | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 prepared | aux |
| 15 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 altars | det |
| 17 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 altars | nummod |
| 18 | altars | altar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 prepared | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 offered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 offered | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 offered | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 offered | aux |
| 23 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 prepared | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 offered | compound:prt |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bullock | det |
| 26 | bullock | bullock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 offered | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ram | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 ram | det |
| 29 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bullock | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 altar | case |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 altar | det |
| 32 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 offered | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | God | Balaam | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balaam=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Balaam | unto God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | prepare | present · perfect | I | the seven altars | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Patient | ||||
| 4 | offer up | present · perfect | I | a bullock and a ram | every altar | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bullock=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
וַיִּקָּ֥ר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶל־בִּלְעָ֑ם וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֗יו אֶת־שִׁבְעַ֤ת הַֽמִּזְבְּחֹת֙ עָרַ֔כְתִּי וָאַ֛עַל פָּ֥ר וָאַ֖יִל בַּמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃
Numbers 23:4: 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:836 of Mova's parse database.
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