Numbers 24:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
Who acts: God · What happens: couch, lie down, rouse up · To what, where: God
This is Numbers 24:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 couched | nsubj |
| 2 | couched | couch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 couched | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 lay | compound:prt |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 lion | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lion | det |
| 9 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lioness | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lioness | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 lioness | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lioness | det |
| 14 | lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lion | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 rouse | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 rouse | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 rouse | aux |
| 18 | rouse | rouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 couched | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rouse | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 rouse | compound:prt |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 rouse | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | couch | past | God | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lie down | past | God | as a lion and a lioness | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rouse up | shall | God | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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
כָּרַ֨ע שָׁכַ֧ב כַּאֲרִ֛י וּכְלָבִ֖יא מִ֣י יְקִימֶ֑נּוּ מְבָרֲכֶ֣יךָ בָר֔וּךְ וְאֹרְרֶ֖יךָ אָרֽוּר׃
Numbers 24:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
- Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, and cursed be every one that curseth thee.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NUM:875 of Mova's parse database.
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