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title: Numbers 24:8 (JPS 1917) — God who brought him forth out of Egypt is for him like the lofty hor… · tree and pragmatics
description: God who brought him forth out of Egypt is for him like the lofty horns of the wild-ox; he shall eat up the nations that are his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them through with his arrows. Who acts: God, nations. Numbers 24:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and t
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# Numbers 24:8 · JPS 1917

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God who brought him forth out of Egypt is for him like the lofty horns of the wild-ox; he shall eat up the nations that are his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them through with his arrows.

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**Who acts:** God, nations · **What happens:** bring, be, eat up, break, pierce · **To what, where:** God, Egypt, nations, adversaries, bones, pieces

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This is Numbers 24:8 · 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 (God, nations), 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:874
# text = God who brought him forth out of Egypt is for him like the lofty horns of the wild-ox; he shall eat up the nations that are his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them through with his arrows.
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	adversaries	adversary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	pierce	pierce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	through	through	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | God | God |  | Egypt |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out egypt=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | God |  |  |  |  | for God; like the lofty horns of the wild ox | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat up** | shall | God | the nations |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the nations | God's adversaries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **break** | shall | God *not said here* | adversaries's bones |  | pieces |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient |
| 6 | **pierce** | infinitive | God *not said here* | bones *= bone* |  |  |  | with God's arrows; through *property* | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with arrow=Instrument |

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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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אֵ֚ל מוֹצִיא֣וֹ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם כְּתוֹעֲפֹ֥ת רְאֵ֖ם ל֑וֹ יֹאכַ֞ל גּוֹיִ֣ם צָרָ֗יו וְעַצְמֹתֵיהֶ֛ם יְגָרֵ֖ם וְחִצָּ֥יו יִמְחָֽץ׃

[Numbers 24:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.8/)

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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:874` of Mova's parse database.

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