Numbers 23:18 · JPS 1917

And he took up his parable, and said: Arise, Balak, and hear; give ear unto me, thou son of Zippor:

Who acts: Balak · What happens: take up, say, arise, hear, give · To what, where: parable, ear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 23:18 · 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 (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 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 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Arise	punct
11	Arise	arise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Balak	punct
13	Balak	Balak	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Arise	vocative
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hear	cc
16	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 Arise	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
18	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 Arise	conj
19	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
20	unto	unto	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 son	punct
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 son	nmod:poss
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	vocative
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Zippor	case
26	Zippor	Zippor	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 son	nmod
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take up	past	Balak	Balak's parable		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Balak not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	arise	infinitive			Balak vocative	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	infinitive				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	give	infinitive		ear	unto me; thou's son of Zippor vocative	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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

וַיִּשָּׂ֥א מְשָׁל֖וֹ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר ק֤וּם בָּלָק֙ וּֽשֲׁמָ֔ע הַאֲזִ֥ינָה עָדַ֖י בְּנ֥וֹ צִפֹּֽר׃

Numbers 23:18: 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:854 of Mova's parse database.

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