--- title: Numbers 23:21 (JPS 1917) — None hath beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath one seen perversene… · tree and pragmatics description: None hath beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath one seen perverseness in Israel; the LORD his God is with him, and the shouting for the King is among them. Who acts: None, one, LORD, shouting. 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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 (None, one, LORD, shouting), 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:857 # text = None hath beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath one seen perverseness in Israel; the LORD his God is with him, and the shouting for the King is among them. 1 None none PRON NN PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 2 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 beheld behold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 11 cc _ _ 9 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 one one PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ _ 11 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 12 perverseness perverseness NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 shouting shouting NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 among among ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **behold** | present · perfect | None | iniquity | | Jacob | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iniquity=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | present · perfect | one | perverseness | | Israel | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer perverseness=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | the LORD | | | | | with LORD | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the shouting for the King | | | | | among princes *= prince* | tree rules | 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} לֹֽא־הִבִּ֥יט אָ֙וֶן֙ בְּיַעֲקֹ֔ב וְלֹא־רָאָ֥ה עָמָ֖ל בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהָיו֙ עִמּ֔וֹ וּתְרוּעַ֥ת מֶ֖לֶךְ בּֽוֹ׃ [Numbers 23:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.23.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:857` 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. - ← previous: [Numbers 23:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.856/) - next →: [Numbers 23:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.858/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 23:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.23.21/)