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title: Numbers 22:35 (JPS 1917) — And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam: 'Go with the men; but on… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam: 'Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak.' So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. Who acts: angel, I, thou, Balaam. Numbers 22:35 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 22:35 · JPS 1917

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And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam: 'Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak.' So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

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**Who acts:** angel, I, thou, Balaam · **What happens:** say, go, speak · **To what, where:** word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 22:35 · 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 (angel, I, thou, Balaam), 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:826
# text = And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam: 'Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak.' So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Balaam	Balaam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
30	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
34	So	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	Balaam	Balaam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Balak	Balak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the angel of the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Balaam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the men | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with man=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | shall | I | the word |  |  |  | unto thee | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | shall | thou | the word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | past | Balaam |  |  |  |  | with the princes of Balak | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with prince=Beneficiary |

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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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וַיֹּאמֶר֩ מַלְאַ֨ךְ יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־בִּלְעָ֗ם לֵ֚ךְ עִם־הָ֣אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְאֶ֗פֶס אֶת־הַדָּבָ֛ר אֲשֶׁר־אֲדַבֵּ֥ר אֵלֶ֖יךָ אֹת֣וֹ תְדַבֵּ֑ר וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ בִּלְעָ֖ם עִם־שָׂרֵ֥י בָלָֽק׃

[Numbers 22:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.35/)

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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:826` 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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