Numbers 23:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And Balak said unto him: 'What hath the LORD spoken?'
Who acts: Balak, LORD · What happens: say, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 23:17 · 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 (Balak, LORD), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | Balak | Balak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 spoken | obj |
| 9 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoken | aux |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 LORD | det |
| 11 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spoken | nsubj |
| 12 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Balak | unto LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present · perfect | the LORD | 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
וַיָּבֹ֣א אֵלָ֗יו וְהִנּ֤וֹ נִצָּב֙ עַל־עֹ֣לָת֔וֹ וְשָׂרֵ֥י מוֹאָ֖ב אִתּ֑וֹ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ בָּלָ֔ק מַה־דִּבֶּ֖ר יְהוָֽה׃
Numbers 23:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And he came to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him.
- And Balak said unto him: 'What hath the LORD spoken?'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NUM:853 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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