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title: Numbers 24:24 (JPS 1917) — But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, and they shall afflic… · tree and pragmatics
description: But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, and they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall come to destruction. Who acts: ships, Asshur. Numbers 24:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 24:24 · JPS 1917

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But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, and they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall come to destruction.

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**Who acts:** ships, Asshur · **What happens:** come, afflict · **To what, where:** coast, Asshur, Eber, destruction

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This is Numbers 24:24 · 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 (ships, Asshur), 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:892
# text = But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, and they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall come to destruction.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Kittim	Kittim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	afflict	afflict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	Asshur	Asshur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	afflict	afflict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	Eber	Eber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come** | shall | ships |  |  | the coast of Kittim |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from coast=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **afflict** | shall | ships *= ship* | Asshur |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus asshur=Experiencer |
| 3 | **afflict** | shall | ships *= ship* *not said here* | Eber |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eber=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come** | shall | Asshur |  |  | destruction |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to destruction=Initial\_Location |

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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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וְצִים֙ מִיַּ֣ד כִּתִּ֔ים וְעִנּ֥וּ אַשּׁ֖וּר וְעִנּוּ־עֵ֑בֶר וְגַם־ה֖וּא עֲדֵ֥י אֹבֵֽד׃

[Numbers 24:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.24/)

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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:892` 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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