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title: Numbers 24:9 (JPS 1917) — Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, and cursed be every one tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, and cursed be every one that curseth thee. Who acts: one. Numbers 24:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 24:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, and cursed be every one that curseth thee.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** bless, curse · **To what, where:** one, thee

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This is Numbers 24:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (one), 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:876
# text = Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, and cursed be every one that curseth thee.
1	Blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	aux:pass	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	blesseth	bless	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	curseth	curse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **bless** | infinitive · passive |  | every one |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **bless** | present | every one | thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **curse** | infinitive · passive |  | every one |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **curse** | present | every one | thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |

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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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כָּרַ֨ע שָׁכַ֧ב כַּאֲרִ֛י וּכְלָבִ֖יא מִ֣י יְקִימֶ֑נּוּ מְבָרֲכֶ֣יךָ בָר֔וּךְ וְאֹרְרֶ֖יךָ אָרֽוּר׃

[Numbers 24:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.875/)
2. **Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, and cursed be every one that curseth thee.**

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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:876` 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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