Proverbs 4:20 · JPS 1917
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: attend, incline, word, say · To what, where: ear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Proverbs 4:20 · 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, my), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attend | vocative |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 son | punct |
| 4 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 attend | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 incline | punct |
| 9 | incline | incline | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 attend | parataxis |
| 10 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 ear | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 incline | obj |
| 12 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 14 sayings | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sayings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sayings | saying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 incline | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attend | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | imperative | you not said here | to my words; My son vocative | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | incline | infinitive | thine ear | unto my sayings | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | say | my | nom saying «communication 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
בְּ֭נִי לִדְבָרַ֣י הַקְשִׁ֑יבָה לַ֝אֲמָרַ֗י הַט־אָזְנֶֽךָ׃
Proverbs 4:20: 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:110 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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