Numbers 24:15 · JPS 1917

And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, and the saying of the man whose eye is opened;

Who acts: LORD · What happens: take up, say, open · To what, where: parable, saying, eye, Balaam, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 24:15 · 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 (LORD), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parable	nmod:poss
6	parable	parable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 saying	det
12	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Balaam	case
14	Balaam	Balaam	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saying	nmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 son	det
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Balaam	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Beor	case
18	Beor	Beor	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 son	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saying	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 saying	det
22	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saying	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 man	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saying	nmod
26	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	27 eye	nmod:poss
27	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 opened	nsubj:pass
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 opened	aux:pass
29	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 man	acl:relcl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take up	past	LORD	LORD's parable	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	LORD not said here	the saying of Balaam and the saying of the man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent saying=Topic
3	open	present · passive		eye	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	say			Balaam	nom saying «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	say			the man	nom saying «communication transitive»: of=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

וַיִּשָּׂ֥א מְשָׁל֖וֹ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר נְאֻ֤ם בִּלְעָם֙ בְּנ֣וֹ בְעֹ֔ר וּנְאֻ֥ם הַגֶּ֖בֶר שְׁתֻ֥ם הָעָֽיִן׃

Numbers 24:15: 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:882 of Mova's parse database.

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