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title: Numbers 24:4 (JPS 1917) — The saying of him who heareth the words of God, who seeth the vision… · tree and pragmatics
description: The saying of him who heareth the words of God, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, fallen down, yet with opened eyes: Who acts: saying. Numbers 24:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 24:4 · JPS 1917

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The saying of him who heareth the words of God, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, fallen down, yet with opened eyes:

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**Who acts:** saying · **What happens:** hear, see, fall down, open, say, word · **To what, where:** words, vision, Balaam, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 24:4 · 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 (saying), 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:870
# text = The saying of him who heareth the words of God, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, fallen down, yet with opened eyes:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heareth	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seeth	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Almighty	almighty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | the saying of Balaam | the words of God |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | present |  | the vision of the Almighty |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fall down** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with opened eyes; down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **open** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** |  |  | Balaam |  |  |  |  | nom saying «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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נְאֻ֕ם שֹׁמֵ֖עַ אִמְרֵי־אֵ֑ל אֲשֶׁ֨ר מַחֲזֵ֤ה שַׁדַּי֙ יֶֽחֱזֶ֔ה נֹפֵ֖ל וּגְל֥וּי עֵינָֽיִם׃

[Numbers 24:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.4/)

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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:870` 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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