Numbers 24:20 · JPS 1917

And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said: Amalek was the first of the nations; but his end shall come to destruction.

Who acts: Israel, Amalek, end · What happens: look, take up, say, be, come · To what, where: parable, destruction · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 24:20 · 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 (Israel, Amalek, end), 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 looked	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Amalek	case
5	Amalek	Amalek	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 took	compound:prt
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 parable	nmod:poss
11	parable	parable	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 first	punct
16	Amalek	Amalek	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 first	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 first	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 first	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumType=Ord	14 said	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 nations	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 nations	det
22	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 first	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 end	nmod:poss
26	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 destruction	case
30	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Israel			on Amalek	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on amalek=Theme
2	take up	past	Israel not said here	Israel's parable			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Israel not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Amalek			of the nations; first property	tree rules
5	come	shall	Israel's end		destruction		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to destruction=Initial_Location

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

וַיַּרְא֙ אֶת־עֲמָלֵ֔ק וַיִּשָּׂ֥א מְשָׁל֖וֹ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר רֵאשִׁ֤ית גּוֹיִם֙ עֲמָלֵ֔ק וְאַחֲרִית֖וֹ עֲדֵ֥י אֹבֵֽד׃

Numbers 24:20: 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:887 of Mova's parse database.

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