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title: Numbers 23:15 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto Balak: 'Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I g… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said unto Balak: 'Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I go toward a meeting yonder.' Who acts: Balak, I, thy. Numbers 23:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 23:15 · JPS 1917

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And he said unto Balak: 'Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I go toward a meeting yonder.'

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**Who acts:** Balak, I, thy · **What happens:** say, stand, go, offer · **To what, where:** meeting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 23:15 · 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, thy), 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:850
# text = And he said unto Balak: 'Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I go toward a meeting yonder.'
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|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Balak	Balak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	_	14	amod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
19	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- 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 Balak | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  | by thy burnt offering | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by offering=Location |
| 3 | **go** | present | I |  |  | a meeting |  | yonder *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward meeting=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **offer** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־בָּלָ֔ק הִתְיַצֵּ֥ב כֹּ֖ה עַל־עֹלָתֶ֑ךָ וְאָנֹכִ֖י אִקָּ֥רֶה כֹּֽה׃

[Numbers 23:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.23.15/)

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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:850` 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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