Numbers 23:24 · JPS 1917

Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness, and as a lion doth he lift himself up; he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

Who acts: you, people, God · What happens: behold, rise up, lift up, not lie down, eat, drink · To what, where: people, God, blood

This is Numbers 23:24 · 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 (you, people, God), 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	Behold	behold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Behold	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 riseth	nsubj
5	riseth	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 people	acl:relcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 riseth	compound:prt
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 lioness	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lioness	det
9	lioness	lioness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 riseth	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lift	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lift	cc
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 lion	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lion	det
14	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lift	obl
15	doth	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 lift	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lift	nsubj
17	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Behold	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 lift	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 lift	compound:prt
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 lie	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lie	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 lie	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 lie	advmod
24	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Behold	parataxis
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 lie	compound:prt
26	until	until	SCONJ	_	28 eat	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
28	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Sub Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lie	advcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 prey	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 prey	det
31	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 drink	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 drink	cc
34	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lie	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 blood	det
36	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drink	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 slain	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 slain	det
39	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 blood	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Behold	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	behold	imperative	you not said here	a people		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
2	rise up	present	a people		as a lioness	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lift up	present · do-support	God	God	as a lion	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	not lie down	shall	God			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	eat	present	God		of the prey	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of prey=Source
6	drink	infinitive	God not said here	the blood of the slain		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient

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

הֶן־עָם֙ כְּלָבִ֣יא יָק֔וּם וְכַאֲרִ֖י יִתְנַשָּׂ֑א לֹ֤א יִשְׁכַּב֙ עַד־יֹ֣אכַל טֶ֔רֶף וְדַם־חֲלָלִ֖ים יִשְׁתֶּֽה׃

Numbers 23:24: 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:860 of Mova's parse database.

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