Numbers 24:23 · JPS 1917
And he took up his parable, and said: Alas, who shall live after God hath appointed him?
Who acts: Asshur, God · What happens: take up, say, live, appoint · To what, where: parable, Asshur · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 24:23 · 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 (Asshur, 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 | 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 15 live | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 live | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 live | aux |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 appointed | mark |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 appointed | nsubj |
| 18 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 appointed | aux |
| 19 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 live | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 appointed | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- other
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, form=other, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Asshur | Asshur's parable | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Asshur not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live | shall | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | appoint | present · perfect | God | Asshur | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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 א֕וֹי מִ֥י יִחְיֶ֖ה מִשֻּׂמ֥וֹ אֵֽל׃
Numbers 24:23: 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:891 of Mova's parse database.
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