Numbers 23:7 · JPS 1917

And he took up his parable, and said: From Aram Balak bringeth me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: 'Come, curse me Jacob, and come, execrate Israel.'

Who acts: LORD, Balak · What happens: take up, say, bring, come, curse, execrate · To what, where: parable, me, Aram, Jacob, Israel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 23:7 · 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 (LORD, Balak), 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 took	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parable	nmod:poss
6	parable	parable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 bringeth	punct
11	From	from	ADP	_	12 Aram	case
12	Aram	Aram	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bringeth	obl
13	Balak	Balak	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bringeth	nsubj
14	bringeth	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 bringeth	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 king	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Balak	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Moab	case
20	Moab	Moab	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 king	nmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 mountains	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mountains	det
23	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 king	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 East	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 East	det
26	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 mountains	nmod
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 Come	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 Come	punct
29	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bringeth	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 curse	punct
31	curse	curse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 Come	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 curse	iobj
33	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 curse	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 come	cc
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 Come	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 execrate	punct
38	execrate	execrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 come	conj
39	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 execrate	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	take up	past	LORD	LORD's parable			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	LORD not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bring	present	Balak	me		Aram	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from aram=Initial_Location
4	come	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	curse	infinitive		Jacob	me		tree rules
6	come	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	execrate	infinitive		Israel			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer israel=Stimulus

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

וַיִּשָּׂ֥א מְשָׁל֖וֹ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר מִן־אֲ֠רָם יַנְחֵ֨נִי בָלָ֤ק מֶֽלֶךְ־מוֹאָב֙ מֵֽהַרְרֵי־קֶ֔דֶם לְכָה֙ אָֽרָה־לִּ֣י יַעֲקֹ֔ב וּלְכָ֖ה זֹעֲמָ֥ה יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Numbers 23:7: 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:839 of Mova's parse database.

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