Proverbs 4:13 · JPS 1917
Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go; keep her, for she is thy life.
Who acts: you, step · What happens: take, let, not go, keep, be, hold · To what, where: fast hold, step, life, instruction
This is Proverbs 4:13 · 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 (you, step), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hold | amod |
| 3 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 instruction | case |
| 5 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 go | advmod |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 keep | punct |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 keep | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 life | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 life | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 life | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 life | cop |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | fast hold of instruction | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | step | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not go | infinitive | step not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | step | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | step | thy life | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hold | instruction | nom hold «act 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
הַחֲזֵ֣ק בַּמּוּסָ֣ר אַל־תֶּ֑רֶף נִ֝צְּרֶ֗הָ כִּי־הִ֥יא חַיֶּֽיךָ׃
Proverbs 4:13: 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:103 of Mova's parse database.
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