Numbers 23:28 · JPS 1917
And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.
Who acts: Balak, Peor · What happens: take, look down · To what, where: Balaam
This is Numbers 23:28 · 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, Peor), 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 | Balak | Balak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Balaam | Balaam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Peor | case |
| 9 | Peor | Peor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 top | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looketh | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 looketh | nsubj |
| 12 | looketh | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Peor | acl:relcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 looketh | advmod |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 desert | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 desert | det |
| 16 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looketh | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Balak | Balaam | unto the top of Peor | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument balaam=Destination | |||
| 2 | look down | present | Peor | upon the desert; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon desert=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
וַיִּקַּ֥ח בָּלָ֖ק אֶת־בִּלְעָ֑ם רֹ֣אשׁ הַפְּע֔וֹר הַנִּשְׁקָ֖ף עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַיְשִׁימֹֽן׃
Numbers 23:28: 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:864 of Mova's parse database.
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