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title: Numbers 23:24 (JPS 1917) — Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness, and as a lion doth he l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness, and as a lion doth he lift himself up; he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain. Who acts: you, people, God. Numbers 23:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 23:24 · JPS 1917

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Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness, and as a lion doth he lift himself up; he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

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**Who acts:** you, people, God · **What happens:** behold, rise up, lift up, not lie down, eat, drink · **To what, where:** people, God, blood

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This is Numbers 23:24 · 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 (you, people, 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:860
# text = Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness, and as a lion doth he lift himself up; he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
1	Behold	behold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	riseth	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lioness	lioness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lift	lift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | imperative | you *not said here* | a people |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rise up** | present | a people |  |  |  |  | as a lioness | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lift up** | present · do-support | God | God |  |  |  | as a lion | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **lie down** | shall | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eat** | present | God |  |  |  |  | of the prey | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of prey=Source |
| 6 | **drink** | infinitive | God *not said here* | the blood of the slain |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |

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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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הֶן־עָם֙ כְּלָבִ֣יא יָק֔וּם וְכַאֲרִ֖י יִתְנַשָּׂ֑א לֹ֤א יִשְׁכַּב֙ עַד־יֹ֣אכַל טֶ֔רֶף וְדַם־חֲלָלִ֖ים יִשְׁתֶּֽה׃

[Numbers 23:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.23.24/)

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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:860` 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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