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title: Numbers 23:23 (JPS 1917) — For there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divinat… · tree and pragmatics
description: For there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel; now is it said of Jacob and of Israel: 'What hath God wrought!' Who acts: divination, God. Numbers 23:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 23:23 · JPS 1917

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For there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel; now is it said of Jacob and of Israel: 'What hath God wrought!'

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**Who acts:** divination, God · **What happens:** be, say, wrought · **To what, where:** divination · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 23:23 · 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 (divination, God), 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:859
# text = For there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel; now is it said of Jacob and of Israel: 'What hath God wrought!'
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
10	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	divination	divination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
28	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
29	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | any divination with Israel |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | divination |  |  | now | of Jacob and Israel | tree rules |
| 3 | **wrought** | present · perfect | God |  |  |  |  |  | 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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כִּ֤י לֹא־נַ֙חַשׁ֙ בְּיַעֲקֹ֔ב וְלֹא־קֶ֖סֶם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כָּעֵ֗ת יֵאָמֵ֤ר לְיַעֲקֹב֙ וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מַה־פָּ֖עַל אֵֽל׃

[Numbers 23:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.23.23/)

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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:859` 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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