Ecclesiastes 10:12 · JPS 1917
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Who acts: words, lips · What happens: be, swallow up, word · To what, where: serpent, mouth
This is Ecclesiastes 10:12 · 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 (words, lips), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gracious | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 man | case |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 gracious | cop |
| 10 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 swallow | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 swallow | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lips | det |
| 14 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 swallow | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fool | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fool | det |
| 17 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lips | nmod |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 swallow | aux |
| 19 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gracious | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 swallow | compound:prt |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 swallow | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gracious | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the words of a wise man's mouth | gracious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swallow up | future | the lips of a fool | serpent | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | word | a wise man's mouth | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
דִּבְרֵ֥י פִי־חָכָ֖ם חֵ֑ן וְשִׂפְת֥וֹת כְּסִ֖יל תְּבַלְּעֶֽנּוּ׃
Ecclesiastes 10:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ECC:199 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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