Numbers 24:12 · JPS 1917

And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Spoke I not also to thy messengers that thou didst send unto me, saying:

Who acts: Balaam, I, thou · What happens: say, not speak, send · To what, where: messengers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 24:12 · 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, I, thou), 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	_	8 Spoke	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Spoke	punct
8	Spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Spoke	nsubj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 Spoke	advmod
11	also	also	ADV	_	8 Spoke	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 messengers	case
13	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 messengers	nmod:poss
14	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Spoke	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 send	obj
16	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 send	nsubj
17	didst	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 send	aux
18	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 messengers	acl:relcl
19	unto	unto	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 send	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 send	advcl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	not speak speech: other	past	I		to thy messengers	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to messenger=Co-Agent
3	send	past · do-support	thou	thy messengers	unto me	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	thou not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר בִּלְעָ֖ם אֶל־בָּלָ֑ק הֲלֹ֗א גַּ֧ם אֶל־מַלְאָכֶ֛יךָ אֲשֶׁר־שָׁלַ֥חְתָּ אֵלַ֖י דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי לֵאמֹֽר׃

Numbers 24:12: 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:879 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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