Numbers 23:16 · JPS 1917

And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said: 'Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.'

Who acts: LORD, thou · What happens: meet, put, say, return, speak · To what, where: Balaam, word, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 23:16 · 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, 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	_	4 met	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 LORD	det
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Balaam	Balaam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 met	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 put	cc
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 word	det
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 mouth	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mouth	nmod:poss
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Return	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 Return	punct
19	Return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	unto	unto	ADP	_	21 Balak	case
21	Balak	Balak	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Return	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 speak	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 speak	cc
24	thus	thus	ADV	_	27 speak	advmod
25	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	27 speak	aux
26	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 speak	nsubj
27	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Return	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the LORD	Balaam			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balaam=Co-Agent
2	put	past	the LORD not said here	a word	LORD's mouth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme in mouth=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the LORD not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	return	infinitive				unto Balak	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	speak speech: other	shall	thou			thus property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

וַיִּקָּ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־בִּלְעָ֔ם וַיָּ֥שֶׂם דָּבָ֖ר בְּפִ֑יו וַיֹּ֛אמֶר שׁ֥וּב אֶל־בָּלָ֖ק וְכֹ֥ה תְדַבֵּֽר׃

Numbers 23:16: 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:851 of Mova's parse database.

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