Numbers 23:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.'
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: take, curse, bless · To what, where: thee, enemies
This is Numbers 23:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 curse | mark |
| 5 | curse | curse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | xcomp |
| 6 | mine | mine | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 7 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 curse | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blessed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 blessed | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 behold | punct |
| 11 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 15 blessed | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 behold | punct |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 blessed | nsubj |
| 14 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 blessed | aux |
| 15 | blessed | bless | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 took | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 blessed | obj |
| 17 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 15 blessed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character, act=express
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | thee | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent thou=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | curse | to-infinitive | I not said here | mine enemies | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bless | present · perfect | thou | enemies = enemy | altogether property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר בָּלָק֙ אֶל־בִּלְעָ֔ם מֶ֥ה עָשִׂ֖יתָ לִ֑י לָקֹ֤ב אֹיְבַי֙ לְקַחְתִּ֔יךָ וְהִנֵּ֖ה בֵּרַ֥כְתָּ בָרֵֽךְ׃
Numbers 23:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Balak said unto Balaam: 'What hast thou done unto me?
- I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NUM:846 of Mova's parse database.
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