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title: Numbers 23:11 (JPS 1917) — I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed th… · tree and pragmatics
description: I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.' Who acts: I, thou. Numbers 23:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 23:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.'

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**Who acts:** I, thou · **What happens:** take, curse, bless · **To what, where:** thee, enemies

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This is Numbers 23:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (I, thou), 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:846
# text = I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	curse	curse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	hast	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent thou=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **curse** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | mine enemies |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme |
| 3 | **bless** | present · perfect | thou | enemies *= enemy* |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר בָּלָק֙ אֶל־בִּלְעָ֔ם מֶ֥ה עָשִׂ֖יתָ לִ֑י לָקֹ֤ב אֹיְבַי֙ לְקַחְתִּ֔יךָ וְהִנֵּ֖ה בֵּרַ֥כְתָּ בָרֵֽךְ׃

[Numbers 23:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.23.11/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And Balak said unto Balaam: 'What hast thou done unto me?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.845/)
2. **I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.'**

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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:846` 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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