Proverbs 4:12 · JPS 1917
When thou goest, thy step shall not be straitened; and if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Who acts: thou, thy · What happens: go, not straiten, run, not stumble, step · To what, where: step
This is Proverbs 4:12 · 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 (thou, thy), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 goest | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 goest | nsubj |
| 3 | goest | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 straitened | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 goest | punct |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 step | nmod:poss |
| 6 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 straitened | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 straitened | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 straitened | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 straitened | aux:pass |
| 10 | straitened | straiten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 stumble | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stumble | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 runnest | mark |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 runnest | nsubj |
| 15 | runnest | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 stumble | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 runnest | punct |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 stumble | nsubj |
| 18 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 20 stumble | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 stumble | advmod |
| 20 | stumble | stumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 straitened | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 straitened | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | thou | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not straiten | shall · passive | thy step | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not stumble | shall | thou | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | step | thy | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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
בְּֽ֭לֶכְתְּךָ לֹא־יֵצַ֣ר צַעֲדֶ֑ךָ וְאִם־תָּ֝ר֗וּץ לֹ֣א תִכָּשֵֽׁל׃
Proverbs 4:12: 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:PRO:102 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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