Numbers 23:29 · JPS 1917
And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.'
Who acts: Balaam · What happens: say, build, prepare · To what, where: seven altars, me, seven bullocks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 23:29 · 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 (Balaam), 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 | Balaam | Balaam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 Balak | case |
| 5 | Balak | Balak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 8 | Build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Build | iobj |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 prepare | advmod |
| 11 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 altars | nummod |
| 12 | altars | altar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Build | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 prepare | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 prepare | cc |
| 15 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Build | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 prepare | obj |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 prepare | advmod |
| 18 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 bullocks | nummod |
| 19 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 prepare | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rams | cc |
| 21 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 rams | nummod |
| 22 | rams | ram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bullocks | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Build | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- 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 | Balaam | unto Balak | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | build | infinitive | seven altars | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary altar=Product | ||||
| 3 | prepare | infinitive | seven bullocks and seven rams | me | here; here | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary bullock=Product |
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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר בִּלְעָם֙ אֶל־בָּלָ֔ק בְּנֵה־לִ֥י בָזֶ֖ה שִׁבְעָ֣ה מִזְבְּחֹ֑ת וְהָכֵ֥ן לִי֙ בָּזֶ֔ה שִׁבְעָ֥ה פָרִ֖ים וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה אֵילִֽים׃
Numbers 23:29: 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:865 of Mova's parse database.
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