Proverbs 4:16 · JPS 1917

For they sleep not, except they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Who acts: paths, some · What happens: not sleep, do, take away, cause, fall, sleep · To what, where: evil, sleep, some

This is Proverbs 4:16 · 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 (paths, some), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 sleep	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleep	nsubj
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 sleep	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct
6	except	except	SCONJ	_	9 done	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 done	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sleep	advcl
10	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 done	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 taken	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 taken	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sleep	nmod:poss
14	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux:pass
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sleep	conj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 taken	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cause	punct
19	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	21 cause	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cause	nsubj
21	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	advcl
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 cause	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 fall	mark
24	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cause	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not sleep	present	paths = path			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present · perfect	paths = path	evil		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality
3	take away	present · passive		paths's sleep	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	cause a condition, not said to happen	present	paths = path	some		tree rules
5	fall	to-infinitive	some not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sleep		paths = path			nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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

כִּ֤י לֹ֣א יִֽ֭שְׁנוּ אִם־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֑עוּ וְֽנִגְזְלָ֥ה שְׁ֝נָתָ֗ם אִם־לֹ֥א יַכְשִֽׁילוּ׃

Proverbs 4:16: 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:106 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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