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title: Numbers 22:8 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto them: 'Lodge here this night, and I will bring you… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said unto them: 'Lodge here this night, and I will bring you back word, as the LORD may speak unto me'; and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam. Who acts: Balak, I, LORD, princes. Numbers 22:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 22:8 · JPS 1917

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And he said unto them: 'Lodge here this night, and I will bring you back word, as the LORD may speak unto me'; and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.

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**Who acts:** Balak, I, LORD, princes · **What happens:** say, lodge, bring back, speak, abide · **To what, where:** word, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 22:8 · 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 (Balak, I, LORD, princes), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:NUM:799
# text = And he said unto them: 'Lodge here this night, and I will bring you back word, as the LORD may speak unto me'; and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Lodge	lodge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
26	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	abode	abide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Balaam	Balaam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Balak |  |  |  |  | unto elders *= elder* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lodge** | infinitive |  |  |  | here | night |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring back** | future | I | word | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination word=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | may | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **abide** | past | the princes of Moab |  |  |  |  | with Balaam | tree rules |

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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 {#hebrew}

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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם לִ֤ינוּ פֹה֙ הַלַּ֔יְלָה וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֤י אֶתְכֶם֙ דָּבָ֔ר כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר יְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֵלָ֑י וַיֵּשְׁב֥וּ שָׂרֵֽי־מוֹאָ֖ב עִם־בִּלְעָֽם׃

[Numbers 22:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.8/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:799` 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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